Alex Massie Alex Massie

An Edinburgh August

Iain McWhirter at The Guardian reminds one why Edinburgh is perhaps the world’s best city every August:

Now, here’s a cultural success story of truly epic proportions. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe alone has sold 1.7m tickets this year – that’s more than twice the number sold by the Manchester Commonwealth Games.

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