What to do this weekend: 25-26 June

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Royal Highland Show

Everyone loves a hairy highland coo, especially kids and it's a great place for a wee taste of country life. If you're not up for the crowds you might want to consider visiting Gorgie City Farm instead - they are open 7 days a week. Great news that they recently managed to raise the required funds to save the farm thanks to generous public donations.

Leith Late

Another great festival to celebrate Leith this weekend! Expect exhibitions, talks, Mural Tours exploring both historic and contemporary murals, live music and spoken word. The hub of the festival is at the popular Out of the Blue Drill Hall and events are taking place all around Leith Walk.

25TH JUNE, SATURDAY

Solstice Pitt

Celebrate Summer Solstice (a few days late) with street food, drinks and music. The Pitt is on between 12-22pm with the following line-up: Rost Eats, Chompsky, Bearded Barista and others.

Dinner at Jupiter

Jupiter Artland's Milk is hosting a five course dinner at the Proposal Room Cafe. Did you know that Jupiter's sculpture garden has been nominated as Museum of the year by the Art Fund? They are in the final and fingers crossed for a win, they certainly would deserve it.

Ghibli at Cameo

Cameo is showing Studio Ghibli's famous Spirited Away movie - a must if you are into Japanese animation. The English language version's screening is at 11am and they will show the subtitled version on 30th June.

26TH JUNE, SUNDAY

Brunch at Buff Launch

The Buff Concept Store is celebrating their launch with Sunday brunch from 12pm at the Waverley Arches. Pop in to Arch 6 for Blondinex porridge, BrewDog beer and live music. I am particularly looking for smelling all their L:A BRUKET goodies! RSVP for their Facebook event.

What to do this weekend: 18-19 June

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Leith Festival

It's the closing weekend of the Leith Festival and there is still plenty going on, including the Trainspotting Tour on Saturday and the traditional closing event, the festival tattoo on Sunday. The latter takes place right opposite the Malmaison Hotel, at the end of Tower Street.

Edinburgh Film Festival

Hopefully your EIFF tickets are already sorted and you have a full schedule of exciting films to see. If you are still unsure which one to pick this weekend, we highly recommend the Estonian film Mother. It's not your usual murder mystery movie - expect a taste of Estonian dark humour!

18TH JUNE, SATURDAY

Edinburgh Canal Festival

The Union Canal at Fountainbridge sounds like the place to be this Saturday - after a full week of rain we might even expect some sunshine, fingers crossed! Raft race heats start at 3pm with the final scheduled around 3.45pm. Before and after you can listen to choir singing, shop for arts and crafts and visit the food quarter with Harajuku Kitchen and the Counter canalboat amongst the food 'stalls'. Sign up for the Facebook event here.

Pitt Market

At the other side of town there is another great foodie event ongoing between 12-10pm. Food and drink vendors include Barnacles & Bones, Umami Spice Girl, Sweet by Frisky Froyo, Smith & Gertrude and many more. There will be also live music and hopefully sunshine. Also luckily you don't need to wait another month until the next Pitt, because it will be a weekly event until the end of July.

19TH JUNE, SUNDAY

Fathers Day

In my country we don't normally celebrate Fathers Day which sounds a bit unfair to the Fathers. Make sure you don't forget to send at least a card or call your Dad.

Dazzle Day Out

Did you know that you can now find a colourfully painted dazzle ship in the Port of Leith? This ship is already the fourth in the dazzle ship series and it's been co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW and the Edinburgh Art Festival to commemorate the First World War. MV Fingal displays the artwork of the talented Ciara Phillips. Read more about this Sunday's programme here.

Have a nice weekend!

What to do this weekend: 11-12 June

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Leith Festival

Source: The Edinburgh Enthusiast (C)

The Leith Festival launches on Saturday and it's on across all of EH6 for a whole week. Recently we're quite into guided tours across the city - here I don't mean the usual Royal Mile and ghost tour stuff but rather the hidden gems. Luckily there are plenty of Leith tours on offer: Story of Leith, Trainspotting Tour, find here the full list of tours and contact details.

Design Market

On Saturday between 10am-6pm and on Sunday between 10am-5pm the Fruitmarket Gallery will be hosting its annual design fair with print, jewellery, fashion and homeware stalls. The will be also Creative Edinburgh talks and workshops with Process Studios.

11TH JUNE, SATURDAY

World Gin Day

Happy World Gin Day! If you have not known, it falls on the 11th June and you can celebrate it appropriately at Summerhall's Juniper Festival. There will be gin stalls with over 30 gins on offer, street food, gin talks and a craft market. Book tickets here.

12TH JUNE, SUNDAY

Silk Marbling Workshop

Source: Hill Street Design House/Mischke Lingerie

Feeling crafty? After the popular Mischke Lingerie marbling workshops in February, the Hill Street Design House is running two more workshops this Sunday at 11am and at 2pm.

Have a nice weekend!

If you're in town, don't forget to pick up the Fringe brochure - it's finally out!

What to do this weekend: 4-5 June

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Hidden Door Festival

The Hidden Door Festival is in full swing - make sure you pop in to King Stables Road. The festival is a great mix of music, street food and contemporary art in a disused street lighting depot, worth visiting for the location itself.

4TH JUNE, SATURDAY

Pentland Hills Instameet

@laretour and @mattblaikie will be hosting a Pentlands Instameet from 1pm. Meeting point is the Rangers Centre car park and they will be taking the path to Glencourse View. Check out more details here.

Portuguese Awakening

Edinburgh Food Studio is hosting three nights with highly talented chef Leonardo Pereira, who will introduce you to the very best of Portuguese cuisine. He worked with Noma's Rene Redzepi, so I'm pretty sure this is a guarantee for a mouthwatering experience. Read more here.

5TH JUNE, SUNDAY

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show

Don't miss the last day of this year's Degree Show at the Edinburgh College of Art. Here is a sneaky preview of the works on display.