A Nearly Day Off at The Oxford Bar: Edinburgh Fringe Adventures

The Oxford Bar.

Greyfriars Bobby… unusually without crowds!

It happens every Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I start with good intentions of blogging, posting pics, writing reviews… but by about the end of week one, I’m embroiled in the everyday of the Fringe, marketing, flyering, finding times for normal ‘life’ stuff.

So a day off isn’t really a day off. I didn’t have to meet a group of lovely strangers at the bar in the Pleasance Dome today and have to summon the Spirit of Charles Dickens from the ‘Astral Plane’ to talk about how Edinburgh changed his life, or check whether the prize for our Pub Quiz is £100,000 – or a celebratory beermat! Or talk about how Dylan Thomas met his wife in a pub, why George Orwell felt he had to carry a gun in Scotland and Anthony Burgess’s connections to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

But I did go to The Oxford Bar, local and invented setting for (Sir!) Ian Rankin and his creation D.I. Rebus. They kindly let me put a poster up and leave a few flyers. So it wasn’t REALLY a social, day off, kinda thing to do.

And then I thought I’d check on Bobby on the way home. Look! No Crowds!

And end up, sadly predictably, at the new local near my digs. The Abbey Whisky Bar. Although I’ve not done a whisky yet. Even though it was a day off!

Join us if you can at 3pm every day from the Lower Dome at the Pleasance Dome. (It’s the little bar in the middle! I put out deckchairs most days…)

Or click on here…

So days off finished, I might see you this week. Our last show in Scotland is on Sunday 24th August. After that, you’ll have to come and find us in London! www.LondonLiteraryPubCrawl.com

Cheers!