Last Minute Deal? Head to Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has finished. The Edinburgh International Festival concludes today, Sunday, August 31 at 21:00 with the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert in Princes Street Gardens. Scottish schoolchildren have started their Autumn Term - and their English and Welsh counterparts will soon be following suite. Most of the University students from outside of the city will not have taken up residence for their forthcoming year. Accommodation should be easier to come by - and cheaper.Edinburgh in August can be fantastic, but it can also be tiring for performers and residents of the Scottish capital alike.
This year's Edinburgh International Festival has been a record breaker at the box office. Ticket sales were seven per cent up on last year's Festival. One in three shows was a sell out according to organisers.
In contrast, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe saw its takings drop by ten per cent on last year. The director of the Fringe Festival, Jon Morgan, resigned. Ticketing problems at the the box office, competition from the Olympic Games, disappointing weather and the downturn in the economy were all factors attributed for the reduction in tickets sales.
Independent travellers can still enjoy Edinburgh. Indeed, it should be possible to walk down the High Street past St Giles Cathedral without been bombarded with flyers promoting one show after another.
Visitors can explore Edinburgh with two Walk Talk Tour audio walking tours of the city. Listeners to the Royal Mile & More, Edinburgh travel guide, can hear about the Castle's rich heritage. Enjoy views out to the Firth of Forth from the Castle Esplanade, where the annual Edinburgh Military Tattoo is held. To find out more about the opening times and admission charges of the key attractions along the Royal Mile & More, Edinburgh city walking tour's route, take a look at the tour's Where & When pages.
Have a look at the fine Scottish Parliament building from the outside. Hear about the late Spanish architect who designed the complex. Visitors are free to enter the Parliament. Some restrictions apply when the Parliament is in session. To hear an audio sample from the Royal Mile & More, Edinburgh iPod travel guide please click here.
The Royal Mile & More mp3 guided tour concludes at the foot of the Royal Mile, in front of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Hear why Edinburgh's New Town was built on the Old & New Towns audio walking tour. The tour begins in the Old Town outside the Castle. Listeners are then guided down into the Grassmarket - once a site where gallows stood. Walk Talk Tourists then cross the Mound via Playfair's steps. Hear about the National Galleries of Scotland. See and hear about the Monument to a great Scot, Sir Walter, which is pictured above.
Walk onto St Andrew Square. Hear about a powerful politician commemorated in the middle of the Square. Discover the role the important role that the Church of St Andrew and St George (or simply St Andrew as it then was) played in Scottish ecclesiastical history.
Continue along George Street. Hear about some of the great characters who have appeared at the Assembly Rooms. To hear an audio extract from the Old & New Towns mp3 guided tour please click here.
The Old & New Towns Edinburgh travel guide concludes in Charlotte Square, where a Georgian House has been re-created and where the First Minister of Scotland has his official residence.
Both the Royal Mile & More podcast guided tour and the Old & New Towns, Edinburgh visitor guide, cost just £5.95 each. Customers purchasing both tours simultaneously will receive a twenty per cent discount.
Both Walk Talk Tour Edinburgh travel guides are professionally produced. Each tour comes with a free downloadable map and easy to follow instructions. Unlike with a conventional guided tour, listeners to a Walk Talk Tour podcast guided tour are free to stop, start and listen again to their tour as they wish - or the weather dictates.
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posted by Walk Talk Tours @ 07:39
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