Edinburgh Open Doors weekend

Image via ifeecosse.org.uk

This weekend will consist of:
1) a baby shower
2) a children's party
3) a trip on a fire engine (if I play my cards right) courtesy one of my favourite free things to do in   Edinburgh.

For this weekend is Open Doors, the city's annual architectural event supported by Edinburgh's Civic Trust. This is when you can saunter into and choose to explore different buildings throughout Edinburgh which are mainly out of bounds to the public for the rest of the year.

Last year we visited the Lothian Region bus depot and rode around on old and new forms of transport, as well as open-top buses. This one is great for the kids. We also popped into the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop to check out the wonderful building there and meet the artists in residence. As previously mentioned, this year there has been a request to visit the Fire Service Museum. There looks to be a very good exhibition by Marseille-based photographer, Geoffroy Mathieu, at the Institut
Français d’Ecosse, too.

Make the most of it if you can, it comes but once a year.