@Morningsider, are you daring to suggest that journalists love stirring the pot in the absence of any real proof, in order to cause controversy? Well I never.
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thisISedinburgh - no, REALLY
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I've been hunting for the actual survey quoted, but can't find it anywhere...
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"but can't find it anywhere"
I doubt if it's public.
It'll be 'owned' by CEC and its arms length marketing company.
Oh...
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It's the
Waverley Shopping CentrePrinces Mall which feels abandoned, not the St James Centre. Not sure where that fallacy arose from.Posted 10 years ago # -
If we post pictures of potholes with the #ThisIsEdinburgh hastag on Twitter will they get fixed more quickly?
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Worth a try.
Don't forget @edinburgh.
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As part of the newly launched campaign “This is Edinburgh”, a social media extravaganza will see three camera crews tour the city to live-stream highlights of what it has to offer and raise awareness of its attractions among people living and working in the city.
The project – #thisisedinburgh24 – is a massive production which organisers say no other city has previously attempted.
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You may have noticed that the Meadows being referred to as the site of the Nor Loch has now been corrected, or bizarrely, removed rather then corrected.
I challenged a number of my friends online to spot the error and the first to reply is originally from... Detroit! (Albeit a former university student here and shortly to become resident again). She was so dismayed that such a schoolboy error could be made that she emailed them to point out their mistake.
The response?
"Very many thanks indeed for taking the time to visit our new website and for your valuable feedback. What a blooper. We have now updated the relevant section within the website"
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A must see guide of what to do in Edinburgh for those with only 24 hours to spend in Scotland’s beautiful and bustling capital city.
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4AM: ARTHUR’S SEAT FOR SUNRISE
Finally, one last amazing view to round off your day, but you’ll have to work for this one. By now, you’ll no doubt have spotted Arthur’s Seat, the 251m high extinct volcano that sits in the middle of Edinburgh. There’s a variety of ways to get to the top, but probably one of the quickest is to take a taxi to Dunsapie Loch, from where it’ll only take about 30 minutes of easy climbing. Offering an amazing panorama of the entire city and far, far beyond in each direction, watching the sun rise over Edinburgh is an unforgettable experience. Just make sure you’re wrapped up warm!
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http://www.thisisedinburgh.org.uk/discover/itineraries/24-hour
Clearly tISe lives in a different universe. Sunrise was 7:07 today.
Sunrise June 21st 4:26
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What's this sun you speak of?
</forgets yesterday>
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An arthritic tortoise could make it from Dunsapie Loch to the top of Arthur's Seat in under 30 minutes. Who writes this stuff?
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Watching the sun rise from Arthur's Seat is the kind of thing you'd do in June rather than Feb, isn't it?
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Or May
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The slopes of the hill facing Holyrood are where young girls in Edinburgh traditionally bathe their faces in the dew on May Day to make themselves more beautiful. The poem 'Auld Reekie', written by Robert Fergusson in 1773, contains the lines:
On May-day, in a fairy ring,
We've seen them round St Anthon's spring,
Frae grass the cauler dew draps wring
To weet their een,
And water clear as crystal spring
To synd them clean"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Seat
Meanwhile tISe -
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Search Results
There were no results for May Day
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When I was a student the stay-up-the-hill-all-night thing was always in October at the end of Freshers' Week, though very few people stayed until sunrise.
Every time I've been up there at sunrise I've never seen the sun (appear to) rise over Edinburgh. Norberwick or Tranent or Dalkeith, perhaps. Also it's impossible to see the entire city as there are several other hills in the way.
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"About four o'clock in the morning there is an unusual stir; a great opening of area gates, and ringing of bells, and a "gathering" of folk of all clans, arrayed in all the colours of the rainbow; and a hurrying of gay throngs of both sexes through the King's-park to Arthur's-seat."
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These days some stayupallnighters start with Beltane
At least tINe knows about that
http://www.thisisedinburgh.org.uk//whats-on/beltane-fire-festival
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"An arthritic tortoise could make it from Dunsapie Loch to the top of Arthur's Seat in under 30 minutes. Who writes this stuff? "
Aye, but your average punter can't beat an arthiritic tortoise best out of 3.
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Watching the sun rise over Edinburgh (well, what most tourists think of as Edinburgh) would be a good trick. One is of course welcome to watch the sunrise over East Lothian.
And it still pees me off that taxis are allowed to use Holyrood Park. For all the talk on EEN about cyclists as a special interest group, taxis & their drivers appear to be able to bend laws & regulations to their will with amazing frequency...
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To watch the sun rise over Edinburgh one would have to be in the western Pentlands I reckons. Out by Harperrigg somewhere.
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I remember going on a headtorch-lit run up Arthurs seat some time ago and getting to the top. Watching the sunrise over east lothian - was lovely. Just getting ready to head down and found 2 tourists huddled on the west side of the summit in some rocks gazing resolutely west with their cameras at the ready. Had to disapoint them.
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@ Murun Buchstansangur
Along with being annoyed taxis can go through the Park, I also find it sad that the website even encourages visitors to take a taxi into the Park rather than simply walking through it (or hiring a bike of course). It smacks of the type of person whose idea of riding a bike is to put it on top of their gas-guzzler and driving out of the city to ride around for 10 minutes before driving home again.
If you're going to encourage visitors to walk up the hill, encourage them to walk to the Park too - the city centre isn't exactly massive!
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