Here are 7 pictures you will only understand if you are from Edinburgh

Here are pictures that capture what it’s like living in our fair city.

By Rachel Mackie

Published 10th Mar 2023, 16:46 GMT

Updated 10th Mar 2023, 16:48 GMT

Edinburgh is a beautiful, vibrant and fun city, we all know it, and there are bits and bobs you learn when you live here for long enough. Here are seven pictures that sum up some of the small quirks about living in the Capital.

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All locals are prepped, every August, to keep their head down as we speed walk down the Royal Mile to avoid ending up with 8, 000 flyers when we're just popping to the shops.

1. Being handed a festival flyer

All locals are prepped, every August, to keep their head down as we speed walk down the Royal Mile to avoid ending up with 8, 000 flyers when we're just popping to the shops. Photo: Roberto Ricciuti

Find a spot at the Meadows on one of the few sunny days we're treated to, and you can see jugglers, frisbee players and all sorts of quirky and interesting hobbies and people - a truly wonderful place to people watch.

2. Not your average game of footie

Find a spot at the Meadows on one of the few sunny days we're treated to, and you can see jugglers, frisbee players and all sorts of quirky and interesting hobbies and people - a truly wonderful place to people watch. Photo: SNS Group

We won't eat chips without it.

3. Chippy sauce

We won't eat chips without it. Photo: Flickr/KathrynMcGrane

We are proud of Edinburgh, and LOVE that tourists come to visit - but when you're late for work and someone stops on the pavement in front of you to take a photo.... *deep breaths*

4. Tourists

We are proud of Edinburgh, and LOVE that tourists come to visit - but when you're late for work and someone stops on the pavement in front of you to take a photo.... *deep breaths* Photo: NEIL HANNA

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