text: Edinburgh Festival | Looking At Edinburgh
  Royal Mile: road closed
  Filed under: Current events, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, photos — Tags: Edinburgh Festival, EFF2008, rain, Royal Mile, St Giles, tents, West Parliament Square — EdinburghEye @ 8:00 am
  At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: a section of the Royal Mile is closed off to everything but foot traffic for three weeks in August. People prepare to celebrate, even in the rain…
  In West Parliament Square, a camp of white tents shudder in the rain. The road block by St Giles is set up for street theatre and foot traffic, so long as the Festival Fringe lasts.
  Disturbed American Tourist May Not Survive the Festival
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  We all know we need them. They come annually in flocks and herds during the Festival, and as singles or pairs the rest of the year. They buy the tartan tat and the bottles of whisky with pipers on the label. They listen to our stories about the haggis. They tell us their stories about how their great-grandfather's cousin on their mother's side was a Scot and they've always felt more Scottish than anything else. And after a couple of weeks or a month they go home again: poorer, more tartan, and we hope, happy with their Scottish experience.