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hmeister
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I'm working at the Fringe and I've been here since Sunday. However I am already starting to hate it:o It's boiling hot and it's packed full of people everywhere you go. People just barge past you and it's hard to get anywhere because crowds of people are in the way plus the buses are always full and places are hard to find.
Cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are nowhere near as bad as this and I can't wait to go home.:kitty:
Is Edinburgh like this throughout the year?
Cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are nowhere near as bad as this and I can't wait to go home.:kitty:
Is Edinburgh like this throughout the year?
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I much prefer Glasgow. It looks much more 'real', has a 'gritty' feel to it and the people are really friendly there
Glasgow shopping is fantastic too!
I much prefer edinburgh but its because I love history , royal mile, grey friars bobby graveyard etc. When the fringe is on I stay well away though. Crowds. Folk handing out leaflets and ppl doing performing arts. Yuck. Edinburgh can be busy but not as busy as when the fringe is on
I was in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the weekend and had a great time. I had been to Edinburgh a few times before but not for several years and it was my first time ever in Glasgow. I'm planning on going back for a longer visit when it is quieter (and cheaper). There are still some pubs on Rose Street that I didn't do over the weekend.
Understatement of the year.
First world problems....
Sorry, I just COULDN'T resist!
Manchester isn't as bad?!!!
Sorry but I don't agree. When we go on holiday we fly out of Manchester. We go down the day before to spend the day there, and we have had the barging past constantly. Its a big city, sometimes the only way to get places is to do that.
The buses we found in Manchester to always be full as well. Places are only to hard to find because you don't know it. Just like we found when we went to Manchester or Newcastle the first times.
Buses in Manchester are always full on the Wilmslow Road corridor but nowhere else, apart from rush hours and last buses.
Were when we were there in June! Was a nightmare. Although there was some music festival on or something which wouldn't have helped.
This week will have been quieter than it's going to be after the fringe starts today.
On the plus side the weather is guaranteed to get worse.
no.
it's hot all over the country. it was unbearable in london at the weekend, but then it's been unbearable in edinburgh many days the last couple of months
edinburgh is much busier at the moment as it's full of tourists, but it just depends on where you go. princes street is just rammed of tourists, but other places aren't anywhere near so bad
i was at oxford street in london on saturday and that was far worse. bar the short thunderstorm the heat was crazy and folk were just walking about like crazy. i then went to camden and whilst that was also busy, it wasn't anywhere like oxford street
so if you avoid the tourist traps and obvious places it won't be so bad. there isn't much you can do about the heat really. and come the weekend when the festival starts it's just going to get busier until it ends, as so many places turn into venues. all around princes street and the royal mile and grassmarket and pleasance is going to be mental
birmingham and manchester are bigger cities and don't have anything like the edinburgh festival so that's why it's different. but if you go out in certain places in manchester it can be pretty packed. the wilmslow road can be crazy and late at night with everyone drunk they just wander about all over the place and cars cruising about for street racing. edinburgh is a smaller place so people are crammed into less space
i'm avoiding glasgow whilst the games are on as that must just be madness, plus i hate sport
If you think Edinburgh is bad, go to London! At least Edinburgh has fresh air you can breathe (and tap water you can drink!)
I'm surprised that the centre isn't pedestrianised, the traffic light settings are awful and the place was full of arrogant and rude tourists who think it's acceptable to either walk 4 abreast everywhere or just stand in a big and random crowd completely blocking the path. Oh and there was an obnoxious Castle guide who I was very close to chinning!
On the whole though, I loved it and will go back again next year. I even caught the sun on Monday
I'm a street performer this year for it. Dark red hair, probably wearing cowboy boots. Look out for me!
I was wondering if there's any big screens showing the Commonwealth games in Edinburgh ?
Just go to the areas where people are on the dole - they all have sky multiroom (3D) with 50" TVs in the lounge and bedrooms. ;-)
(Somebody else can name the areas - but all you need are the initials: Cm, Bh, P, Mh, Wh.)
Nope.
The Festival/Fringe more than doubles the population.
And even then, it's nowhere near as busy as Central London during the height of the tourist season.
Come to Glasgow we're lovely
The fact that you can't cross roads easily really annoys me. You have to wait 10 minutes until the traffic lights say you can go then people aren't sure whether to go or not and you're stuck behind them so it takes ages to get somewhere.
I got lost today on my way to Pleasance so I asked a woman but then some random man said he'd take me there. He said he was from Birmingham but he knows the area so I followed him and actually took me there:)
It rained most of the time but it didn't bother me as I spent most of my time enjoying myself by watching Street Performers. I'd recommend The Fringe to everyone.
Edinburgh is actually quite dry, the average precipitation is in the region 40-80mm. I moved here from the north west of England where it was more like 80-160mm. The east coast in general is quite a bit drier than the west.