It's stopped raining!!!
Aug. 11th, 2012 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eilidhsdBack in Embra yesterday for the Tattoo, up on the esplanade of the castle, on top of the rock.
It has stopped raining and yesterday was beautiful, warm and sunny, and with temperatures getting up to 20 deg, which is in the low 70s.
But I'm not stupid. I grabbed the blanket off my bed as I left, stuffing it into a shopping bag along with a kitchen cushion.
Embra was lovely - crammed with Fringe performers doing street acts and people watching them. We wandered, went for dinner down in the Grassmarket, and then went up to the castle for the Tattoo, which started at 9pm.
It was stunning. The castle was silhouetted against a clear sky which started a pale, pale pink, darkened to navy, and then went to black as the night went on.
The bands are always good, and there is now a light show, with colours and images beamed on to the castle backdrop, and they use the darkness in the show.
You are watching massed military silver bands, floodlit and spotlit, but, from the opposite entrance under cover of the unlit darkness, the massed pipe bands are creeping in to fill the other half of the arena. (Yes, of course, massed pipe bands can creep.)
That was for the finale, a glorious massed Highland Cathedral. But my favourites were a drum corps from Basle, who marched and played in an amazing variety of formations.
And did I need my blanket? Too bloody right I did. I was wishing I had brought the duvet too. And kicking myself for not buying the cashmere socks in the tatty souvenir shops on the Royal Mile. By 10pm my feet were like ice.
But it stayed dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're back for a couple of Fringe shows this coming week too.
PS - just found the drummers on Youtube - Top Secret Drum Corps; worth a look.
It has stopped raining and yesterday was beautiful, warm and sunny, and with temperatures getting up to 20 deg, which is in the low 70s.
But I'm not stupid. I grabbed the blanket off my bed as I left, stuffing it into a shopping bag along with a kitchen cushion.
Embra was lovely - crammed with Fringe performers doing street acts and people watching them. We wandered, went for dinner down in the Grassmarket, and then went up to the castle for the Tattoo, which started at 9pm.
It was stunning. The castle was silhouetted against a clear sky which started a pale, pale pink, darkened to navy, and then went to black as the night went on.
The bands are always good, and there is now a light show, with colours and images beamed on to the castle backdrop, and they use the darkness in the show.
You are watching massed military silver bands, floodlit and spotlit, but, from the opposite entrance under cover of the unlit darkness, the massed pipe bands are creeping in to fill the other half of the arena. (Yes, of course, massed pipe bands can creep.)
That was for the finale, a glorious massed Highland Cathedral. But my favourites were a drum corps from Basle, who marched and played in an amazing variety of formations.
And did I need my blanket? Too bloody right I did. I was wishing I had brought the duvet too. And kicking myself for not buying the cashmere socks in the tatty souvenir shops on the Royal Mile. By 10pm my feet were like ice.
But it stayed dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're back for a couple of Fringe shows this coming week too.
PS - just found the drummers on Youtube - Top Secret Drum Corps; worth a look.
