What The Dickins: Edinburgh Folk

Louisa Andersen has just joined us here at Dickins, taking over from Shawna as our Digital Marketing and Social Media Manager. Louisa came to Edinburgh six years ago to study journalism at Edinburgh Napier University. Since then she’s been working at Essential Edinburgh and freelancing as a graphic designer. We’re excited…

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.