Gordon, a local guide, took us on a tour down the Royal Mile and although we had walked up and down it before, discovered lots in the back courtyards and heard many stories of old Edinburgh, mostly murders and hangings. The sun came out and it was bright and warm for most of the day. We took a tour of a Georgian House in the New Town which basically took up the daylight part of Sunday. We were handed free tickets to a play in the afternoon and finished up the night at the theatre, in a church. The play and actors were excellent. No wifi at the unit so am managing at cafes to keep in contact, so these posts might be irregular for a while.
Sharon takes the stage at the Fringe festival
We bought a ticket to a show called Absolute Improv where the audience gave prompts for the actors to go with in various “games”. One game called for two members of the audience to provide a word to the actors to change the way the improvisation was going. Of course, Sharon voluteered. The act was all about a grandfather who was a composer which after a prompt from the other audience participant, changed to him being a cheese composer! When Sharon was next prompted she said, “Underwear!” From there the cheese was wrapped in underwear which the girl said gave the cheese a delicate flavour. Hilarious!
We finished off the night with a great hour of Blues music by a band of 10 young musicians.
On the Fringe
Stilt walkers, jugglers, magicians, bagpipe players in kilts, bagpipe players in dresses, bagpipe players with cloven hooves, Korean drummers, balloon swallowers, Aussie whipcrackers, street bands, the list goes on. And that’s just in the street. We started the day slowly with an open top bus tour,a walk through a 1500’s National Trust house across the road from our flat, a walk to the closed Portrait Gallery to see Boswell, a duck into the Hollyrood Castle shop for a postcard of the Queen (wait for it Jo) and a very good world press photography exhibition in the new Scottish Parliament. Now that’s an outstanding building!