The Tattoo!! (the military variety, not the other kind...)

How to describe this amazing event....? a showpiece musical extravaganza? a colourful, musical spectacular? Over a thousand performers all came together, in the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, against the famous backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, to perform with military precision. Pipers, marching bands, horses, and even motor cyclists (the motor cyclists all highly-trained young people, sixteens years-old or under, performing amazing feats...) all must have put in many long hours of training and practice to be able to perform as they did. All in all it was a most memorable 90 minutes - being squished in our seats like sardines and being rained upon by decidedly more than a Scotch mist for the last half hour or so, certainly didn't detract from the enjoyment of the event! (Of course, in my estimation, the massed pipes stole the show!)