Category Archives: Travel notes and pictures

I begin the day with a taxi ride to the Royal Botanical Garden, to hear David Leddy`s play Susurrus, an audio installation, that enfolds in your ears a rich potion like the one Oberon places on Titania`s eyes to make her fall in love with an ass. I listen and follow a map to eightContinue reading “Thursday, 13th Aug -4 Show Day”

I bandaged my toes this morning, blistered from walking from one end of Edinburgh to the other yesterday…6 hours of walking 4 hours of shows!The city of Edinburgh has multiple levels, (literally one lower old town and one upper), so does the Fringe.There are 369 venues listed in the Fringe brochure. The brochure is soContinue reading “Wed 12th Aug Edinburgh Fringe”

This is the theatre orgie of the century….a glut even for me, which way to turn so many choices, excited one minute, disapointed the next, like heat seeking missle to the hot shows….follow my nose, ears and the Scotsmans Reviews and anyone I can talk to to give me a recomendation. Ran into a womanContinue reading “On the Streets of the Edinburgh Fringe 09”

      One of the best shows I saw in Edinburgh was by Kirsten Fredrickson- Everything Must Go. She and her Dad were working together on the show for Edinburgh Fringe. He died of pancreatic cancer two months before the show was to open. He is still in the show in film and inContinue reading

 

Haggis,blood pudding and kippers on the buffet breakfast….yikes, nearly lost my apetite. There are over 2,000 people staying in the Edinburgh University residences where I am staying for 9 nights, and everyone goes for breakfast buffet, mob scene…eggs and bacon and awful saussages abound. Luckily there is a fruit and yogart bar.The first show IContinue reading “August 12th Edinburgh Fringe Festival”

August 10. 2009 Monday I made it to Scara Brae, Circle of Broder, St Mangus Church in Kirkwall (see video) all before getting on the 4:20 ferry to Westray. 4 days later.. I’m just leaving Westray…I wept when I arrived and wept as I was leaving Westray. The Island is a warm place that enfoldContinue reading “August 10. 2009 Monday”

Aug. 5th 2009 11:50am Drove to Richmond to park my car at my friend James’ Mom’s house…secretly needing a Mom to send me off! And Judy did so in a loving fashion, recognizing this need in everyone to have someone wave them off, and wish them well. OK, so I’m checking in on time atContinue reading “Wednesday, August 5, 2009”