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- Friday 03 February 2012
February 14th - a date some of you will look forward to with great anticipation, while others would prefer to erase it from the calendar altogether. Whatever your feelings about St Valentine’s Day and the slushy sentiment it generates, it’s a great excuse to break up the monotony of the week by getting out and doing something with your Tuesday evening. As ever, Edinburgh has lots to offer even the most ardent anti-Valentiners among us.more... - Friday 06 January 2012
April 15th 2012. 13.1 miles, 7000 runners and a band at each mile marker rocking you on to the finish line in Holyrood Park. It’s the UK’s first Rock ‘n’ Roll half marathon and it’s happening in Edinburgh. For those of you who have contemplated running but never quite seen the fun in it (like me), this could be the event for you.more... - Friday 04 November 2011
Congratulations to Lorraine and Grace who won the amazing #EdinTreasure 8 person VIP Edinburgh Castle experience,
tour of the Castle, VIP lunch, a souvenir photo pack, goodie bag plus they'll get to meet the Edinburgh icon that is the One O'Clock gunner) on last night's very first Edinburgh Sparkles treasure hunt.more... - Friday 07 October 2011
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin. There once was a blog which wasn’t very good at telling stories (OK, it sucked at it), but it was very good at letting its faithful readers know about some really rather good storytellers that would be coming to Scotland’s inspiring capital later this month instead.more... - Wednesday 21 September 2011
It’s fair to say that Edinburgh’s no stranger to puzzling and suspenseful tales, for a fair share of the city’s famous novelists, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall, have been expert at conjuring up their own. But right now, there’s not one, but two intriguing real-life mysteries that have captured the imagination of the capital’s citizens, both of which could easily be taken straight from the pages of a detective story.more...