to consider a break in Edinburgh in December

[LuLuuuuuuu]

Just that really

I am wondering if anything is open as its not tourist time and not going in the week leading too, or after, Christmas .

Any Edinburgh MNs around to tell me there are things to do ?

TIA

The rant is one of the funniest things I've read on here

"Awaits slagging for my Edinbugger accent..."

It's not much better than Glaswegian tbh, the whole central belt is much of a muchness...

😂😂😂 this must be a wind up

Aw, I missed the rant! But thanks for this thread OP, I'm planning a trip to Edinburgh now to see the zoo lanterns and the light show at the Botanics.

National Gallery of Scotland and the Scottish Portrait Gallery are worth a visit at any time of year. As is the Castle.

Be wet and cold but so cosy and Christmasy!!

I'm planning a trip to London for Christmas. Is it worth it, or will everything be shut?

I am wondering if anything is open

I believe they had electricity installed last year, so the shops can now all stay open after its got dark in the winter.

An Edinburgher upthread admitted they had to google to see if anything in Glasgow would be open...

So it's not just a London thing.

"No, everyone decants to the castle and they pull up the drawbridge for winter?"

Let's start doing this for the Festival, though.

I missed the rant too. Don't suppose someone could give me the highlights could they?

I live in Edinburgh too.....it's really not been that cold the last few years. No different really to the north of England really. Hardly any snow at all and last year I can only remember a few frosts. But then I live by the coast so get less of the snow and frost anyway.

Edinburgh's christmas and Hogmanay has got increasingly busy and commercialised the last few years.... I think now the majority of it is run from London by www.underbelly.co.uk/about who run Leciester Square christmas and lots of other events. The "German Market" and local traders that used to be on the mound have been pushed out ( www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/german-market-traders-snubbed-by-organisers-1-3142447) and it's all fairly generic everywhere with all the stalls being pretty much chain stalls selling the same stuff and employing people for peanuts..... such a shame... it's now kinda exactly like any of the other big christmas events in other big cities. Apart from the amazing architecture of course.

Ho hum. such is the world we live in. If you do come up then you'll still have a good time, it's a spectacle. and Edinburgh itself is wonderful. I just wish the council would stop allowing the city centre to be raped for 3 months each year by these big London companies who put little back into the local coffers and completely change the character of the city centre.

It may have involved a 'fuck', a 'cunt' and MUCH USE OF CAPS LOCKS.

I wanna see the rant!

She basically said that if everyone in Edinburgh was as rude as people on the thread they could all Fuck Off and her ancestors will have escaped from Scotland to London in order to get away from the cunts Oh yes and much more swearing and capital letters.

Instead of everyone in Edinburgh fucking off, why don't you not bother coming?

As an Edinburgher I wish I'd seen the rant in all its glory.

I would give the 'German' market a miss to be honest. It was lovely the first few years, but now it's just generic overpriced tat and very, very crowded. Plenty of other lovely things to do and see, though. I recommend getting the tourist bus on day 1, deciding what you like the look of, and taking it from there.

m.atgtickets.com/shows/christmas-at-the-botanics-2017/royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh/

Missed the rant but PMSL at the OP wondering if anything is open Hot off the press - we've got running water and electricity now too, OP.

This is a perfect demonstration of how london-centric the press is, that people have this level of ignorance about another capital city in the UK.

Looks like I missed a top rant there!

Tip for the future, OP - Google is your friend. That'll save you asking really stupid questions out loud, then getting shirty when some people respond bluntly.

Rant was great. We are all TWATS too.

@ChickenVindaloo2 Whit's wrang wi the weegie accent, eh? Ur ye feart ae it, eh? Eh?

Edinburgh I'd famystic in December!!!! A super Christmas market, as well as huge new year celebrations. We usually go for our wedding anniversary just before, or just after Christmas, and the atmosphere is always lovely, it's very busy and bustling and full of bars/resturants to keep you occupied.

@Agent

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for real though OP? I mean really? Come on!?!It's the capital city!!!! In the run up to Christmas. And Hogmanay (New Years...) ya know...fairly big deal up there. And you're asking if anything will be open?