The Edinburgh Reporter December 2021

Roll back the y
12 RETROSPECTIVE
LOOKING BACK over the year, it really has
been a year like no other. Usually every
weekend holds photo opportunities of all
kinds. This last twelve months they have been
few and far between, but when we got the
chance it was very much worth it. The most
colourful display at Edinburgh Diwali was a
tonic in November, and we have to hope that the glorious
sights and sounds of the Sir Walter Scott Pageant to mark
250 years since his birth will be repeated.
BY THE LEFT QUICK MARCH
At The Royal Scots Club they closed the street allowing the Band of
the Royal Regiment of Scotland to perform a Beating The Retreat
which is a military ceremony dating back to the 16th century.
CYCLE ON COP26
Hundreds of cyclists set off from Edinburgh to cycle in the rain to COP26
in Glasgow. It appears the message from Earley Panda got through.
THE CAPITAL’S COVID
COFFEE CULTURE
Scott Williams , left, and business
partner Vladimir Zadyraka
opened their micro
roastery in the middle
of the pandemic. A
year on and people
on Thistle Street
still wake up
and smell the
coffee.
A MESSAGE OF LO
The Global Rainbow lit up the skies
captured the seven parallel horizon
Yvette Mattern’s installation has pr