Intense conference, but I only have a few shots from Edinburgh - unfortunately none of the theater and comedy festival that happened right after the conference. Unfortunately, I hadn't booked a room for the two days (weekend) I stayed after the conference and everything was completely booked out ... so I crashed at Kevin LB's place for the first night, saw 2 (or more?) shows with him and then went to Glasgow for a night while he moved to a hostel. The shows were very interesting: an odd and disturbing (some may say racist) "comedy" about foreigners in England, and a brilliant one, "Basic Training", performed by a single very gifted artist.
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| Nice park downtown | Don't remember which church this is ... | Nice flowers ! |
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| Edinburgh castle | Same park | Same castle |
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| On the way to the IJCAI reception | ... we ran into this rehearsal | But we had missed almost all of it |
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| and so were mostly impressed by the size of this orchestra | Still on the way up to the castle | Up there, taking a few moments away from the crowd for pictures ... |
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| Haubitze ... how do you say that in English ? | A single bag pipe player to entertain the crowds ... | Edinburgh in the background |
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| The next generation of humanoid robots by Sony | Dancing was his master discipline! Mediocre way finding. | This is already in Glasgow |
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| Glasgow again | Funny ad | Pretty buildings in Glasgow |
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| Scotland with stlye ... hehe | Statue for James Watt | Statue for Robert Burns (who was that?), complete with dove shit.... |
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| Hmm, again I'm clueless :-( | Probably the town hall ... | And the open place in front of it |
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| Back in Edinburgh where I flew out. Some important person was approaching, with hordes of people watching ... | ||