Camera Obscura looks good, I may go there next time and also as a Rankin fan the Rebus tour sounds interesting too.

Interesting point on the capitalisation. I would argue along the lines of David Marsh and assert that the noun philistine has long since lost it's association with the region of Israel and, as such, losing the capital is correct. Another good example of this is 'vandal'. We would very rarely capitalise this word unless referring to the Germanic tribe in the 5th century.

I went to Edinburgh last Easter as well as this weekend. Sights I recommend visiting:

Camera Obscura
Castle
Scotch Whisky Experience
Dynamic Earth
Scottish Parliament
Grassmarket
Royal Mile
The West End
National Museum
Holyrood Palace
Holyrood Park
Prince Street Gardens

And that's just for starters. There's tons of stuff to do. But now we really are straying off topic!

Whisky place was good when I went five or six years ago. If you like malt whisky it's definitely worth a trip.

I looked at Dynamic Earth for this time, but plumped for Camera Obscura. Both good for kids under 10, I reckon.

Move it to the Edinburgh or Cardiff thread then?

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I've still got four or five to read. Last one I read was "The Falls", so going past Surgeons' Hall was interesting.

I sat in the pub all day drinking beer. Suited me!

Echo on these points for sure – we were in the south stand both Sat & Sun & saw plenty of Scottish Union shirts in that area. Wetherspoons on George St was like a RL gathering both before and after the games on each day

We were lucky to get the weather we did, as the walk to Murrayfield & all the goings ons once inside the ground wouldn’t of worked no were near as good (this is where the roof at Millennium stadium gets a plus point, even though it wasn’t needed this w/end). Was great how people could sit around & take up the atmosphere etc.

Think the set up overall was very good & plenty to keep people busy between games. We caught up with the mascots before they headed onto the pitch for the mascot games on Sat, along with Robbie Paul & Iestyn Harris on Sun. All were in no rush & spent time chatting/having pics with fans. We watched all 7 games over the w/end (noticed many left after their game though), got our money’s worth as ours wasn’t until the last of the competition - got talking to various fans throughout the day....there was a good vibe within the stadium, just as we've had at Cardiff too.

We know the weekend again will be hosted at Murrayfield next year, will be interesting to see were this event goes next. I did enjoy Edinburgh; although think it should continue on move again – not sure if they’d take it back to Cardiff. Anyone have any ideas of decent venues that could be successful for this w/end?

I think a venue needs:

-Good quality, decent size stadium (min 50k, I know we won't fill that, but it's nice to have the flexibility to move around which would be harder in a smaller stadium)
-Decent host city with it's own tourist attractions and sufficient accomodation
-Far enough away from M62 heartlands to encourage people to go for weekend
-Not too far away though, so day trippers can be included too.

I don't think anywhere quite meets those criteria other than Cardiff and Edinburgh. I was thinking the other night the Emirates looks a nice stadium, but we already go to London for the Cup Final, and everyone would get dispersed into the city and so it wouldn't have the same festival feel.

Was you happy with your seats at weekend seb or will you be sitting somewhere else next year



I personally feel that the reserved upper seats should have been above the unreserved lower, so that all fans are virtually in one section.

Happy enough yeh, we wandered over to the East side on the Saturday for a bit but I felt the view wasn't great from the lower tier, so returned to our seats in the West Upper. East Upper probably would have been better.

I was sat a few behind you, we moved after the Leeds game to get abused and threatened by the HKR fans.....great stuff.

The only other place I can think of is Newcastle.

but that is a final between 2 teams not the whole league which makes it more marketable and the press don't like stepping out the M25 if they can help it so im sure they'd put a bit more effort into it only downside is it can only start after football season is over

The various "Ghost Tours" in Edinburgh are good. Didn't do one this weekend, but did last time we went in December, very entertaining. Generally they go through a walk round of the city, going through the history, then go underground into the vaults, with more history of it, then stories of the ghosts and legends and stuff.

Its alright Arsenal's season is usually over by April anyway.

I think its a good idea and could raise awareness of Rugby League within London, hopefully meaning an increase in support for the Harlequins. Plus there's about 500,000 aussies in London, surely a good few thousand would attend if the event was well publicised.

Anywhere in London could well mean not seeing another RL fan anywhere other than inside, or immediately outside the stadium. I've never been, but as many have mentioned Newcastle is there anything there other than pubs and the stadium? I'm not aware of any stadia in the South West that would be suitable.

Other than Cardiff or Edinburgh, the only viable alternatives that I can see are Paris or Dublin (as my sister lives there, Dublin would be my favourite).

Mille or Lyon would make more sense in France due to the South being more into rugby league than the north (irony or what)

The tour is did was Conan Doyle, Walkabout, Lloyds, Slug and Lettuce, Cafe Habane and Modd......class.

I forgot you'd said you were going to be near us and didn't see you - you should have said hello.

With you on that, both Cardiff & Edinburgh have now proved successful. Even though the capacity is way over sized for us, it gives people the opportunity to wander around as they please.

Would be good publicity to push the event more around the London area, but can’t see it making as much impact as the previous two venues. Plus the whole occasion wouldn’t seem as big in a city the size of London. Whilst in Cardiff & Edinburgh, it had the feeling of something ‘going on’ and everywhere you looked had various other RL followers about. Maybe the event could switch to & fro from Cardiff to Edinburgh, gives people the opportunity to go back to what they enjoyed (or not so, in some cases

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Did many of you go for the reserved seat option or not? Seemed like the east stand seemed to be the best place for the sun on both days (we had to wait quite a while for it to come round to us in the south).

I was sat on the row in front of Seb.

A few rows in front mate, tried to get your attention...you were looking well considering you'd just ran 10k.

Didn't see you, the Catalan fans were really loud..."we hate Rhinos"

You didn't see me, even with my shorts on



, would you know who i was if you seen me

yeah.