Edinburgh Festival Fireworks

We Scots really do it in style.

It was the end of the Edinburgh International Festival yesterday which is always marked by a huge firework display on the castle esplanades.

My buddy David and I decided to nip through to Edinburgh and soak up the end of festival atmosphere and stood with the other 250,000 people to enjoy this amazing annual spectacle which lasted for nearly an hour.

This year the Scottish National Chamber Orchestra played along to the fireworks and it was amazing as every crash of the drums and roar of the brass sections was timed to perfection with the explosion of the fireworks.

We may not have all the jazz and pzazz of Disney World but we've got the real thing, a castle that has stood since the 6th century proudly watching over the land and oozing real history from every piece of it's solid stone.

A perfect backdrop to a brilliant display.

Fringe Benefits

One of the many benefits of staying in Glasgow is that when the Edinburgh festival is on you get to see all the street entertainers peform before they go on through to the "other capital city" but without all the hassle of pushing your way through a million tourists on the Royal Mile.