What The Dickins: Edinburgh Folk

We’ve been lucky enough to work with a very talented illustrator recently called Helen C Stark – and there is no better day to tell you a bit more about Helen than on International Women’s Day! We spotted Helen’s gorgeous drawings on Instagram, got in touch and are now proud to present two…

This week, Dickins spent 5 minutes with Travel Blogger, Kim Kjaerside. Originating from Denmark, but living in Edinburgh, Kim enjoys travelling, landscape photography and is one sixth of the Scottish blogging network, The Scotlanders.

The Scots language is beautiful but does have words that to the uninitiated could sound like complete gobbledegook! So, before you visit Edinburgh it would be useful to get familiar with some of the slang. That way when you arrive, you’re not going to be completely lost.

Author Philip Caveney has written a special guest blog for us about why he fell in love with the Edinburgh Festival, the city itself and why it has given him so much inspiration.

Welcome to our new blog What The Dickins: A Tale of Edinburgh City. We are ridiculously excited about it. Why? Because there are so many amazing things to do in Edinburgh and we now have a place where we can share them with you! Essentially, it’s going to be a…