Edinburgh and the Festival

Arriving  in Edinburgh the festival was in full swing. The population increases from its 800,000 residents to a staggering 2 million people, coming from all parts of the world. It is a stunning atmosphere with street theatre and thousands of organised events including all the Fringe festival activities. Traditionally the main event is the Military Tattoo held each night in the Edinburgh castle and is fully booked months ahead for the duration of the festival. How ever we were told that there are sometimes return tickets so we rocked up to the ticket office and as luck would have it there had just been 2 tickets returned which we grabbed... We didn't observe any empty seats in the arena and consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.What an amazing evening of music, lights, action and fireworks, An event that should be on every ones bucket list. We spent 2 days soaking up the atmosphere of this great carnival event. Let the selection of pictures tell the story.