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Edinburgh without the Festival

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  • Started 4 years ago by crowriver
  • Latest reply from Murun Buchstansangur

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  1. crowriver
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    @gembo, looks like it. No snogs under the mistletoe unless from same household, everyone spaced out two metres apart. Doesn't sound like great fun TBH.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  2. crowriver
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    "I miss the festival. There is no buzz just now, it is sad. The Royal Mile is a different Edinburgh just now, it's an Edinburgh for locals."

    Thus concludes an Angie Brown article on the Aunty Beeb web site. And yet, the only folk she interviews - apart from street performers and restaurant/shop owners are.....wait for it.....tourists from England.

    Shurely shome mishtake? (Ed.)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53946873

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. steveo
    Member

    But did it improve your life? Can't say it made the slightest bit of difference to me.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  4. Murun Buchstansangur
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    Radio 4 had a section the other night from James Naughtie on the Festival's absence. There was about two sentences in it that acknowledged that not all Edinburgers welcome the festival with open arms even in normal times. I'd say a lot of Beeboids are missing the free access to the Festival/Glasto/whatever.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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