Edinburgh's High Street: the busy, buzzing heart of the festival city

Peer up the High Street in Edinburgh on any given Sunday in January or February, say, and you probably won’t see much in the way of people. Empty pizza boxes, yes. Rain, probably. But people? Less so. You certainly won’t see jugglers on stilts, street performers dressed like astronauts who appear to defy the laws of gravity, or buskers whose skills with banjo/guitar/trumpet/saw are jaw-dropping enough for their caps to be brimming with change (though many take cards these days too).

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