Mind Where You Snap in Edinburgh

Our attention has been drawn to these, seemingly disturbing videos, shot by fotofan001. We cannot make any comment on what happened up to the point that this first clip was shot as we have neither been able to speak to fotofan001 nor get Multrees Walk’s side of the story yet. Again, without knowing what transpired [...]

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Burke and Hare Resurrected

The John Landis cinematic portrayal of Burke & Hare, Edinburgh’s most infamous murderous thugs of yesteryear, has now got its trailer online for your perusal. ReelScotland have the trailer, I must say it looks hilarious! Well worth a look in any case.

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How We Could Spend X Million Pounds…

Just in case you’ve not heard and are reading this frustratedly trying to get to work: His Expensively Holiness Der Papst is in town today at a cost of somewhere between 10 and 20 million of our lovely Scottish Pounds. Estimates vary wildly and the actual cost may never be known as costs of travel [...]

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Join Us On The New Digg

Dear friends of EdinburghSeasons, We are lucky enough to have been given a “muckle wheen” of invites to the NEW digg. In true generous Scottish spirit, we want to share these to our friends and followers. Simply click the button below to gain access to the all NEW digg. We look forward to seeing you [...]

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Burke and Hare Edinburgh Bad Boys and Serial Killers

If you thought Edinburgh history was all cute little stories about puppy dogs, think again. Edinburgh has a dark side, complete with a pair of serial killers who make Jack the Ripper look like a small time hood. In just eighteen months between 1827 and 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered at least 16 [...]

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Neighbourly Love

Somewhere in our fine city of Edinburgh an Englishman and a Scotsman live next door to each other. The Englishman, naturally wanting to show his allegiance to England in the World Cup, has hung the St. George cross in his window. His neighbour has gone not one, but two better: Banter between neighbours is healthy [...]

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Pleased To Meet You, Meat To Please You

This Halal butcher’s van is often seen out and about in the Leith area. By the looks of things quite a few graffiti taggers have been “pleased to meet” the van too… Well done to Najaf Halal Meats for keeping us entertained on the roads of Edinburgh!

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8 Comedy Legends Discovered In Edinburgh

With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 set to kick off in just under 2 weeks (7th August) we pay homage to just some of the comedy legends who got their big breaks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe over the years. We have found clips of each of these comedy superstars to highlight just how funny [...]

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Lemur Caption Competition

Regular readers may remember Scott Liddell’s photo of this ring tailed lemur from his guest post about visiting Edinburgh Zoo. We feel that the lemur would be saying something if he could, but being as we cannot speak lemurese we have no idea what he might be saying! If you think you know, please leave [...]

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EdinburghSeasons Goes All Social

Our regular readers may notice something new on EdinburghSeasons today but in case you haven’t, and for the benefit of new readers we’ll point it out. In the right hand column, under “Recent Posts” there are now two new boxes. The first of these boxes is our facebook fan page box, this shows you the [...]

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