A preview day of the Fringe Festival today. Performers allllll over the Mile. Crowded, but not nearly as bad as it will get when the Festival really kicks off later in the week. We hear the Scottish bagpipes virtually everywhere, the appropriate background music to the entire trip. We saw a variety of performers along the mile, many guitar players.
While eating lunch at Garfunkles along the Mile, Kerry and I (and other diners) were serenaded by a two man band, playing a guitar and a banjo. Please excuse my poor camera work, some of the videos may be sideways. I'm not a talented filmmaker, my apologies.
Drifting away from the common guitar sound down the Mile, we passed a saxophone player.
While you're walking down the Royal Mile, you are constantly bombarded with the cries of the poor souls who got stuck handing out flyers for performances. Papers are shoved in our faces, coupled with the rehearsed schpiel for whatever the people are trying to get us to attend. Some of them are worthwhile...others fall on deaf ears...as they should.
At the end of the Royal Mile we find the Holyrood Palace. While we make our way through, we listen to the sounds of the prerecorded tour through our headphones (which at least one of us will almost surely get lice from). Most of the time, the audiotour is a monotone voice of the past, but occasionally we walk into a room so splendid that it deserves it's own entrance music, usually a classical style, maybe a bagpipe here and there.
A view from the gardens at Holyrood Palace (keep off the grass)
Archers competing on the lawn, winner gets a free dinner.
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