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Edinburgh International Festival \u2013 how to get free tickets (and ice cream)<\/p>\n

Edinburgh International Festival will be at the Broomhouse Hub on Thursday (today) from 12 until 2pm with FREE ice cream from S Luca and FREE EIF tickets. <\/p>\n

Offers include the EIF FamilyConcert, Ceilidh Sessions and Art of Listening for Families interactive workshops. EIF staff will be on hand to help with bookings. <\/p>\n

The EIF has a Community Connections Hub partnership with Space at The Broomhouse Hub.<\/p>\n

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Bridges Across Borders \u2013 Tracing Ukrainian Roots in the Heart of Edinburgh tour<\/p>\n

If you fancy something a bit different then contact Nataliya and book a place on the tour of the city centre to find out more about the links between Edinburgh and Ukraine. <\/p>\n

One is that Edinburgh is twinned with Kyiv, and has been since 1989, but there are many more ways that the Scottish capital already had links with Ukraine long before the current conflict began. <\/p>\n

The two hour long walk will take you up to Calton Hill stopping to look at St Andrews House which is the administration side of The Scottish Government. There we learned that St Andrew is also known in Ukraine and there is a monument to him in Kyiv. <\/p>\n

Nataliya is Ukrainian and she came to live here in April 2022 quickly followed by other members of her family. Now she is a tour guide in Edinburgh showing the places with a material embodiment of the connections. She is full of information about the sights on the tour and clearly well-known to the many Ukrainians who frequent the Ukrainian Club on Regent Terrace. <\/p>\n

And there is food \u2013 Ukrainian food! Those who are on the tour end with a taster plate of Ukrainian goodies at The Square Cafe where borscht is on the menu along with other Ukrainian delicacies such as varenyky \u2013 which is a Ukrainian dumpling. <\/p>\n

Book your place here<\/a> or find nine friends to go with you. Meet at\u00a0<\/strong>The National<\/a>\u00a0(National art gallery of Scotland), The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL at noon. Your guide Nataliya will be waiting for you in front of the gallery, holding a Women in Travel CIC sign.<\/p>\n

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Critical Mass<\/p>\n

Although there are other things on this Saturday this is designed to take cyclists out of the city centre to Saughton. Meet with a bike at Middle Meadow Walk at 2pm. <\/p>\n

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Head to Jupiter Artland for a swim<\/p>\n

Jupiter Artland has the most beautiful heated swimming pool and it is open on Thursday evenings. <\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

The pool was designed by artist Joana Vasconcelos as an installation called\u00a0Gateway\u00a0in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Joana Vasconcelos, Gateway (2019).
\nCourtesy of Jupiter Artland. Photo Alan Pollok-Morris. <\/p>\n

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