August 12

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Fringe Sunday is a big free event put on by the Fringe organisers in the Meadows. Unfortunately when we got down there the weather had gotten really festy and I was in thongs (flip flops). We stayed for an hour or so, checked out the markets and got handed about 10 million flyers. The ground was too muddy and the free entertainment tents were too packed so we ended up going on a giant loop walk around the city to look for lunch. Every place we went to either had a waiting list, no places to sit or didn't have anything we felt like! After an hour of walking we arrived at Bruntsfield, just next to the Meadows where we ended up sitting outside at the Golf Tavern, outside the Bruntsfield Links, a small golf course. We were told they'd be a wait for the meals but we still ordered up an entree to share and a main each. An hour later I went inside to see what was going on and they had gotten so busy with orders they actually had to stop taking new ones just after we ordered. They were very apologetic and offered a round of free drinks - pity we'd had plenty of cocktails the night before and could only muster enough strength for Diet Cokes. 10 minutes later they brought out our entrees and mains at the same time, we were still sitting outside and the weather had gotten windy, so our food went cold quickly. It was nice but it would have been even nicer to taken time to savour instead of scoffing it all down quickly instead of it getting cold. Also quite strange to end up having lunch at 4pm.

The weather was getting yuckier by the second so we walked up to Alphabet Video in Marchmont and got Family Guy DVDs. 20 minutes into the first episode and we were both out cold around 7pm. All the late nights had started to catch up with us!