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10 Budget Tips for the Edinburgh Festival

10 Budget Tips for the Edinburgh Festival
by Trina on August 6, 2008 in Budget Travel

Held in August each year, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is one of the biggest dates on the travel calendar. Offering nearly a month of fun and games in this historic city with raucous late pub openings most nights and over 30,000 performances, it’s a must for every traveler.

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Edinburgh: The City With Many Stories

Edinburgh: The City With Many Stories
by Darcie Deaville on August 3, 2008 in United Kingdom

One of many pieces in Darcie Deaville’s writing series, “Diary of a Raving Musician.” Edinburgh was the first city in history to have a skyscraper. In fact, they just kept on building on top of each other. The merchants lived in their shops at the bottom. The poor lived at the top, and in between you would find the middle class, like lawyers and doctors. There was little or no sunlight.

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