Tag: Edinburgh

I found the booking process unnecessarily difficult and complicated. After an hour and a half of competing with the website crashing, I finally managed to book two tickets. Due to the multiple reloads of the website the price fluctuated quite a bit, but through resetting my cookies and IP address, I...

The yearly Edinburgh Fringe Festival is renowned for the showcasing of some of the most fantastic theatre from all over the world. From comedians to new musicals, street performers to one-man plays in pub attics, there really is something for absolutely everyone. But did you know, there are actually...

‘This is not a set of recommendations, it’s a call to action’, said Jim McCormick introducing the final report of Edinburgh Poverty Commission’s report today. With characteristic calm candour, McCormick, the commission’s chair, levelled with us. That call to action i...

It was the 11th December in 2014, the first-ever CreativeMornings/Edinburgh event and the room was packed despite the “weather bomb” going on outside. But as the room filled with excited caffeinated chatter, I was hiding backstage gripping the sleeve of my co-event producer Jakub, a vide...

Bunches writers of stacks novels borrow and twist that proverb. The way it relates to this dilemma is — have you ever returned home from a trip and waited so long to sort your photos that you no longer remember where you saw what? Worse, did a pandemic come along and toss your blog posting pla...

You have heard of Edinburgh (the city, as it happens, in which I was baptised; which I have loved all my life). You may not have visited Sighthill or Dumbiedykes, but perhaps you know the view down George Street. Now there is a new sight at the George Square end: a round and tapering hotel which has...

Edinburgh was one of the first places that I visited out of Portugal, and one of the few cities that I went back to — and that I would also go back anytime, although if I want to know the world, its difficult to come back to the places that we loved the most. I can check all the bo...

I live in Edinburgh and for I while I’ve been considering purchasing a buy-to-let property in the city where every year (minus the Covid months/years) I observe thousands of tourists explore various parts of the city. Investing in a buy-to-let is a serious enterprise and I want to do my res...

Planning to visit Edinburgh, but on a tight budget? Not a problem! Edinburgh has a host of awesome free museums and galleries for you to enjoy and wander around. So, whether you are looking for a few free places to pop on your itinerary, a family searching for some low-cost activities or e...

I live in Edinburgh and for I while I’ve been considering purchasing a buy-to-let property in the city where every year (minus the Covid months/years) I observe thousands of tourists explore various parts of the city. Investing in a buy-to-let is a serious enterprise and I want to do my res...