Edinburgh Streets

A few streets in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival in August 2011. No real commentary, just streets.

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• eliseharris
• edinburgh
• fringe
• festival
• kmcleod
• streets
• scottish
• scotland

[CampKohler]

Where do they store all that Fringe crap while waiting for the next year's event? Or do they simply chuck it and make new stuff every year?

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler they probably junk most of it. The sponsorship changed from RBS to Virgin finances this year as RBS has no money now. So that is all new - they might keep that if they are planning to sponsor next year.

[CampKohler]

Why do they need a bridge in downtown Edinburgh, anyway? There's no river there, so what is it that it crosses over? It's all so odd.

BTW, the History button at royal-miledotcom takes you to some fine reading. J. Grant's articles are particularly interesting, especially all the grizzly bits about hacking off heads and burning beautiful women at the stake (or is it "burning as a steak?"). Those Scots weren't all just kilts and bagpipes; they could be just gruesome as anyone else.

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler 400 years ago there were lochs on both sides - Nor' Loch where Waverley station is and Borouigh Loch where the Meadows Park is. They were drained. Before New Town was built Edinburgh was a walledcity and built on hills so space was tight. By building bridges over chasms and buildings lining all the bridges and hills they could build dwn and up. It is very much a multi-storey city.

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler There were more 14 storey buildings made of wood before a big fire a few hundred years ago, apparently. Almost every building goes down and down and down. There are many underground areas that have been forgotten about. Google Maps is unhelpful because there is so much of Edinburgh under the Edinburgh visible from space! It's an engineering marvel, really. There is more underground Edinburgh that has been lost than there is above ground space.

[arvidmr]

Nice harp music and those buildings made of stone looks like castles, they might be a pretty expensive to own.

[Eliseharris]

@arvidmr i believe Edinburgh is one of the more expensive cities to live in - especially in the Old Town and the more prestigious bits of New Town.This is all Old Town - I rarely went over the bridge to New Town this year.

[lapisredux]

you,re still in edinburgh?!!...what about your pond for chrisake!...think of the tadpoles!

[Eliseharris]

@spiegel I think there's something up with the coding on Youtube as it isn't as bad as that raw. The first part in particular looks as if it is pulsating on here and it wasn't originally.

[Eliseharris]

@CampKohler The first one is cCandlemakers Row. Then the top of Candlemaker's Row at the junction of George iv Bridge, just outside Greyfriars Kirk cemetary and the Greyfriars Bobby statue. Then The Royal Mile Lawnmarket and going down the High Street part of the Royal Mile.

[spiegel]

the camera work needs to be more jittery. I only vomited twice.