Edinburgh And the Festival: We got here by practice to Edinburgh and the next day, Monday twelfth August 2013 was the primary of a full week we spent within the metropolis and the primary week of that yr’s Edinburgh Competition.
Ten years earlier than this we had spent an satisfying week within the metropolis, three of my household staying in a really snug flat near Haymarket station, and had spent a really full week exploring the town and among the surrounding space – together with Leith and strolling just a little of the Fife coastal path. That yr we left simply because the competition was about to start out.
2013 was very completely different. Linda and I had been invited to affix a gaggle of buddies to remain in a big flat in Bruntsfield a brief stroll from the town centre who had been there for the Edinburgh Competition, and though we didn’t have a terrific curiosity in most of the competition occasions had discovered a quantity which appeared price attending over the week.
Between these and our share of the housekeeping for the dozen or so of us – together with taking our flip at making ready a night meal for the group – we managed to slot in fairly a number of different issues throughout the week, together with one other climb up Arthur’s Seat, and I even managed to perform a little work, protecting a protest by the Scottish Defence League and a counter-protest by Unite Towards Fascism on the Saturday.
However in contrast to on our earlier go to we stayed inside the town, and spent more often than not within the central space the place a lot of the competition takes place across the Royal Mile.
A couple of of the occasions had been very a lot to my style – equivalent to a guided tour across the elegant Georgian New City, which took us to a couple locations I’d not been earlier than, and the Metropolis of the Lifeless tour turned out to be quite extra attention-grabbing than we had anticipated.
And there have been some attention-grabbing poetry and threatre performances in addition to a number of talks. We additionally bumped briefly into a number of outdated buddies at a few of them or on the streets, although often then we had been going other ways to different occasions.
On My London Diary you possibly can learn extra about our packed week. It was tiring however largely satisfying, however we left feeling going there as soon as was most likely sufficient and we’ve not gone again. We’d return to Edinburgh however to not the competition.
There are additionally photos from the opposite days – all of these listed here are from Monday twelfth August 2013. I had travelled mild and so they had been all taken with a reasonably compact Fuji X-E1 utilizing both a 35mm normal lens of the XF18-55mmF2.8-4, equal to 27-83mm on full-frame.
Edinburgh & the Competition
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