Here's a slogan I came across in my Festival wanderings that will appeal to many readers.

And here's a restaurant that rivals the tram project for delay.




I took a short break from Festival wandering to visit the Lake District and snapped one of its beauties.
 

Back in Edinburgh I popped into the Livingston exhibition at the National Library.  One of many bi-centenary year exhibitions and events in Scotland and Africa this one concentrates on pictorial representations of the Livingstone story.  The little white blob nestling in the Atlantic to the west of the then dark continent is Scotland to the same scale as the map of Africa.  The head and shoulder picture of Livingstone may not be to the same physical scale but its size reflects the importance of the man.

Millepied is a wonderful name for a dancer and choreographer and it's a name well known to us all since Black Swan.

He's here with LA Dance Project, an American company he heads.  Their triple bill includes one of his own works, Moving Parts.  It's a fine piece of lyrical beauty quite different from the challenging darkness of Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch and the joyous vibrancy of William Forsythe's Quintett (despite its genesis).  The combination of these three works makes for a stunning evening.