29/07/08
Bring it -
Categories: I am now chez Fringe – drove into a very foggy Edinburgh on Monday evening, via the very definition of ‘plenty of stops’ (as parents continue to advise). Here they are in all their glory:
- Left Guildford on Sunday afternoon
- Stopped in near Bedford to pick up a keyboard
- Stopped in Newark to do a gig at ‘New Wine’ festival. It went rather nicely.
- Drove onto Sheffield and stayed the night there, chez Days Inn. More bearable than I thought, for a roadside motel.
- Monday Breakfast near Leeds
- Stopped in Newcastle to see The Dark Knight, which was excellent, and I’m no comic book movie fan. Heath Ledger was great. Oscar for him, I reckon.
- Checked my email in a McDonald’s in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Bizarre that McD’s now do free wireless at some outlets – just didn’t seem right surrounded by kids, eating a Big Mac, firing up my laptop.
- Arrived in Edinburgh Monday night.
Found my accommodation – an odd room near South Bridge (which is quite central), where the kitchen and bathroom is all part of the one big bedroom. It’s very ‘studio’. A bit soulless to be honest, but I’m only here for a week, as to save money I’ve 3 different accommodations for a week each. I must enjoy the centralness of this while it lasts.
The city doesn’t seem ready for the festival yet. There are very few posters up, the Royal Mile contains only one street performer, I drove past my venue last week to try and drop off props but I didn’t even recognise it as a venue – it was just a street. Even walking down the street today, the amount of locals here is vastly more than I’m used to. I guess they’ll mostly be buggering off on their holidays at the end of the week, when it becomes unbearably artistic. What’s amusing at the moment are the coachloads of tourists who have clearly misjudged their visits – there are loads of them, all reading fringe guides, staring at the only street-performer they can find, piling into Buffet King to work out what to do now they’ve realised the festival doesn’t start till Thursday.
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