Double win for Scotland at Rough Guide Travel Awards

Scotland picked up two awards at the Rough Guide Travel Awards 2017. After weeks of voting, the results were compiled after receiving hundreds of entries, to bring celebrate the people, places and experiences that have shaped their voters’ year in travel. Scotland took top prizes in being the Most Welcoming Country and the Favourite Destination…

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Never judge a whisky by its label

Peter Ranscombe samples Loch Lomond distillery’s range of single malts at the Edinburgh International Festival. Trying something new is the best part of the Fringe. Going to see a show that you would never normally watch is half the fun of the world’s largest arts festival. And so it should be for Scotch too. I’ve…

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Macmillan Art Show returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Macmillan Cancer Support’s high-profile Art Show has returned this year as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Celebrating its 15th anniversary exhibition, the carefully selected artwork, from a variety of styles and tastes, will be showcasing from Thursday 24th August – Sunday 27th August at the prestigious Bonham’s Auction House, in the heart of Edinburgh. Since…

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Enjoy an oat-rageously good breakfast with Groats and eteaket

Leaf tea experts eteaket and porridge aficionados Groats are teaming up this weekend (5-6 August) to offer the people of Edinburgh the most Instagrammable breakfast in town, with a tea-and-porridge pop-up at the eteaket Concept Store on Rose Street. Perfect for building up stamina to see you through the Fringe, Groats’ unique style of handmade…

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The Marriage of Kim K comes to the Edinburgh Festival

Leoe & Hyde, the pioneering contemporary music theatre company renowned for mixing dramatic innovation with pop-cultural subversion, will tour their most ambitious project yet this summer; a fearlessly caustic satire fusing the most vaunted production in the history of classical opera with one of pop culture’s most explosively tragicomic unions: The Marriage of Kim K.…

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