text: I happened to be visiting Edinburgh for a college reunion during the time of the Fringe Festival so after meeting up with my friends at the airport we all headed to the Royal Mile which I fondly started calling the High Mile on account of its elevation and because so many people were high on life drugs or alcohol to soak in the atmosphere nnAnd what an atmosphere it was Full of buskers mimes musicians and eclectic acts from Japanese pop to American tap dancing to an Eastern European theatre group performing a moving play about Jewish children interned at a Nazi concentration camp nnIt was a warm and sunny afternoon and the crowd was out in force and I could clearly see the shimmering blue waters of the Firth of Forth in the distance nnAfter stopping by for a wonderful meal of haggis and salmon and IPA at the Whiski Bar and Restaurant different review for that one we plunged back into the creativity and madness enjoying the magical experience that is the Fringe