Embro to the Ploy - memories of a week at the 2007 Festival

Climbing the 124 steps up to George IV Bridge each morning (less than half shown in the photo).

Finding that the Elephant House, where I used to have coffee when I was working in the library a few years ago, is now "The birthplace of Harry Potter", with an endless queue of toursits waiting to be photographed in front of it.

First Conundrum by Remco de Fouw opposite the Usher Hall: a sculpture which refers to the neolithic polyhedral balls found in north-east Scotland.

A wonderful concert performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso in the Usher Hall, with Sonia Prina and Philippe Jarousski sensational.

Alex Hartley's exhibition at the always-excellent Fruitmarket Gallery, and his instructions for climbing the building:

Richard Long at the National Gallery of Modern Art:

Phil Jupitus and Andre Vincent playing Tweedledum and Tweedledee thinking they are Vladimir and Estragon.

One dreadful Fringe play whose cast outnumbered the audience.

Walking through the grounds of the Dean Gallery:

The eloquence of Jordi Savall in his solo recital, and Savall in discussion speaking in favour of soft music ("All important communication, between man and woman, mother and child, friend and friend is quiet and gentle.")

Concerto Italiano singing Monteverdi in Greyfriars Kirk, the church in which I was christened, but which I hadn't been inside for over forty years.

Montserrat Figueras and Hesperion XXI, performing seguidillas en eco and other music associated with Don Quixote:

Yo soy la locura
la que sola infundo
plazer y dulzura
y contento al mundo.

Sirven a mi nombre
todos mucho o poco
y pero no ay hombre
que piense ser loco.

And after that concert, the greenness of George Square:

And all the time reading the witty Scots poems of Robert Garioch and enjoying his affectionate dissection of the Scottish psyche.