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> I have a lodge that is up for rent during the festival, Its sleeps
> six and is ideally located in a beautiful area.
> See my website for more details - http://v4.livegate.net/gregsta/

A warning.  That's in Eskbank, not far from where I live.  It has one
*serious* disadvantage for a typical Festival-goer - it's seven miles
out of town and there's no night bus service.  You can get to every
significant town or village within ten miles of Edinburgh after a
late-night event *except* central and eastern Midlothian (Dalkeith/
Eskbank/Newbattle/Woodburn, Mayfield, Pathhead, Newtongrange and
Gorebridge).  The last scheduled bus leaves the city centre about
11.30 most nights, midnight on Sunday.

The nearest you can get is Gilmerton on the city boundary, and then
it's a scary two-mile walk along a partly-unlit, sometimes pathless
narrow main road used all night by heavy trucks.  (I suddenly found
myself remembering a playground joke from New Zealand: why did the
hedgehog cross the road?  He wanted to show the world he had guts).

Budget for taxis; expensive from the city centre, not too bad from
Gilmerton, but hard to find one on a really busy night like the big
fireworks display.  (Use a car and you'll spend most of the festival
trying to get it into town and park it).

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