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Today’s Fringe festival was a low-key day. It started with a lazy morning and then going to a lunchtime concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral. It featured a youthful all-female ensemble called, the Soteria Piano Trio. They played a varied program. The first half was modern music,
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Today, Sunday 13 August, was a lazy day. We had only a show at 6:00 and we decided to use this as a down day. Eli went out on his own. As I ran out of clean socks so I ran over to Marks & Spencer to buy a
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Saturday, we had two shows but they were in the late afternoon and then late evening. So we started the day out going to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery Number Two (yes that’s it’s name). It had a nice but simple collection: a single Monet,
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It does warrant discussing the venues of the Fringe. There are literally hundreds of venues from temporary trailers, to converted hotel conference rooms, classrooms, theaters and a variety of other strange spaces like extra rooms in a cavernous bar or restaurant. I’ll try a better job of taking pictures
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Every morning we have a 1-2 kilometer walk to the venue in central Edinburgh. Usually I get up in the morning and have a cup of tea with the free breakfast that comes with the room while Eli sleeps in. Teens need more sleep than adults. I also use
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Monday 7 August 2023 Today we went to a fringe show but in the evening went to the Edinburgh International Festival proper and saw a jazz concert. The day started off with a one person show by a woman who suffered from ADHD. The show was amazing and frighteningly educational.
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Sunday 6 August 2023, Edinburgh This was the third day of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that I am attending with my son Elijah. It was one of the most magnificent days of my life and definitely the most satisfying theatrical experience. I really miss Sarah being here she would have
The Writings of Jonathan Arnwitz-Taylor and Morris Taylor
The film, Piccolo Corpo (Little Body) by debut director Laura Samani is an almost virtuoso display of the all too human struggle of women in a desperately inhumane male dominated world.
bologna
I also had a pass to the Cinema Ritrovato festival, an international annual festival of restored films. I thought I was in for lighter fare than I bargained for: but they were all amazing films...
bologna
I choose to live in Bologna for, among other things, its cultural life. Especially music. And I was not prepared for 3 of the best orchestras I don’t think you’ll ever hear of.
dining-review
I was not really prepared for the evening. Okay, it was a Michelin 3 star restaurant that everyone wanted to get into; But when I told my italian teacher I was going to Francescana, she informed me that it was one of the 10 best restaurants of the world and read me an article to that effect.
Travel, Wine & Food
Having driven there for over a week I can honestly say that I have no idea what is meant by a stop sign, except it clearly does not mean "Stop." The driving was extremely intense but after a while a pattern emerged...