it’s showtime
August 2nd, 2006
All of a sudden, Edinburgh is being transformed from a quiet city enjoying a peaceful summer, with barely even a student in sight, to some uber-cultural capital. It’s odd.
This afternoon in the local corner shop, during the usual conversation about the weather (it’s been raining for the last 3 days), the shopkeeper asked how long I was around for. I explained that, actually, I live in Edinburgh. He seemed really quite surprised.
Update: I am informed that making any comment which comes close to a complaint about the weather is a surefire way of being mistaken for a festival-attending tourist.
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