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[Holidays] Trip to the Edinburgh Fringe

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It's a funny thing, but over the four years that I've spent in St Andrews I've only been to the Edinburgh Fringe festival for one day. Even that was only because a friend was up in Edinburgh and asked if I fancied seeing a couple of shows. I think it's one of those "you could go anytime, so you never actually get around to it" things. Well this weekend, with my girlfriend visiting St Andrews for the last time, I decided to do something about it. We spent most of the weekend in Edinburgh, and managed to see nine shows over two days. Since there's so much happening at the Fringe, we decided to limit ourselves to comedy shows., and to stick to free events as much as possible. We had a quick look through the website on Friday and picked out a couple of things we wanted to see.  But we weren't prepared for just how busy the Fringe was, how many people there would be, and how early we would need to start queuing for some of the shows! (Credit: s...