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Jo Across the Festival '12 - Aug 12

Jo Turbitt reviews Frozen Charlotte's Paper Belle and the Foodie Festival 2012.

Day 11: My festival experience today was calm, relaxed and serene. The Botanic Gardens was a welcome change to the usual festival venues of the city centre. It's a bus journey, but it's worth it; walking around the gardens in all the glorious space you can hardly believe that round the corner and up the hill lays a mass of people brandishing flyers, crowding the streets and bustling from cow, to caves, to gardens…

Paper Belle (Frozen Charlotte), Botanic Gardens (****)

For anyone who drew, draws or wants to draw, Paper Belle brings childlike images to life with colourful magic and simple beautiful storytelling. A paper pixie with an excellent sense of humour, she and her friend Eric bring the world of drawings to life in a popup book style adventure discovering the beauty and fun of colours. Remember Rainbow? It's like that, but only in its design (no scary bear, hippo, thingy or Rod, Jane or Freddy!). There are surprises all over the set keeping the young inquisitive minds feasting on the wonders of the world of their new friend. Cunning tricks, fun design and excellent simple ideas give this show a beauty rarely found in children's theatre. Frozen Charlotte have a piece which sits up there with the likes of Josephine Bean and Cloud Man. Very lovely, relaxing and full of imagination.

Foodie Festival 2012, Inverleith Park, 10-12th August

Packed with more food, flavour and gadgets than a Masterchef's kitchen, the foodie festival is awesome. If you're taste buds are already fully trained or if you’re a newbie to the foodie revolution, this is the place for you this weekend. Stall upon stall of ingredients, of gadgets, of ‘eat up and drink up’. There is a distinct nod towards the new and inventive. Another definite theme in the wares of the stalls is a drive for delicious, healthy food which sits very nicely alongside the locally produced. IQ Chocolate is a brilliant stall to visit, and I urge you to taste the whole range and then buy the flavours which suit you best. All their products are chosen for their health benefits, making this chocolate one of the most guilt-free on the market!

Go for what you know you like, but also challenge yourself to try things which you've either never heard of or those which you have but haven't had the chance to try. Book for demos or just wander from smell to smell, drink to drink and taste heaven to taste heaven. Situated in Inverleith Park this year, it was too far away from the centre to be able to fit in amongst the Festival shows, but it was also a welcome break. This annual food party is not to be missed, so if you did—go next year!

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