I remember the first time that I went to Scotland as a child was when my aunt took me to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. I remember seeing clown dancing on the street as well as a play that took place in a car...
I remember the first time that I went to Scotland as a child was when my aunt took me to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. I remember seeing clown dancing on the street as well as a play that took place in a car. Only two people could watch it at any one time, which was my aunt and I, and we sat in the back of the car listening to an argument occur between the couple in the front seats as the man tried to drive and the woman tried to map read. The joke that won the best joke competition that year was: ‘My computer asked me to choose a password with seven characters, so I wrote, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey…’ We stayed in an Edinburgh city centre hotel, which was the first place that I went in a sauna and had a massage. There were three teenage girls staying on our floor in the room a few doors to the left and I fell in love with all of them despite the fact that I was only nine. I remember going for a walk along the battlements that surround the city from where you get great views over the entire cityscape and spotting them strolling through a square half a mile or so away. My aunt also took me to a football match at Ibrox stadium in Glasgow once the Fringe festival had finished. I don’t remember which team Glasgow Rangers were playing against but it was when Paul Gascoigne still played for them and he scored a stunning hat-trick, the last of which was a thunderous free kick from a full thirty yards. In retrospect, going to this game may well have been the moment when my obsession with football fully took hold and it has yet to abate. We stayed in a central Glasgow hotel that had table-tennis.
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