Pittpurple...thanks! I will definately purchase the day pass..it's a really great deal.

Do you enjoy living in Edinburgh?

pittpurple: &quot;<i>I'll let Caroline answer the weather question - I've only lived here for two years and the weather has been completely changeable!</i>&quot;

Heck - if you'd lived there 15 years, your answer would be the same -- &quot;Changeable&quot; :)

As pittpurple says you can buy daysavers (and single tickets at &pound;1.10) on the bus, and you need the right change. Just thinking, though - since you'll be around for 10 days (although I suppose you won't come into Edinburgh every day ?), whether it might be worth your while buying a weekly pass for &pound;13. You'd need to go to one of their Travelshops for that (most central ones are on Hanover Street &amp; Shandwick Place). Probably not, though. Avoid getting on a non-Lothian bus - there aren't many but there are a few, and you can't use a Lothian ticket/pass on them.

I checked some random show/date/area of theatre combos at the website for the Festival &amp; King's Theatres (www.fctt.co.uk) &amp; got matinee prices ranging from &pound;7.50 for the back of the upper circle on a weekday to &pound;21 for best dress circle seats on a Saturday. The Festival Theatre is the nicest of the big ones.

The Playhouse has 'Mary Poppins' on during your visit - www.edinburghplayhouse.org.uk. It's not a very nice theatre (slightly rundown old cinema) but that's where the big touring musicals go, and it will probably be very good if you like that sort of thing ! There's a matinee on 22nd with tickets from &pound;14.50 to &pound;35.

The Lyceum doesn't have any matinees during your visit, unfortunately.

As for the weather - the leaves are already changing colour :-) But as pittpurple says it the weather could be doing almost anything while you're here ! Allow for 5-15 degrees C in the daytime : that should cover it. It may or may not rain and may or may not be windy.

Bring different options &amp; layering possibilities, and a small folding umbrella. You may be OK in a t shirt &amp; medium weight jacket one day but want a winter coat the next day. If I were going to be out &amp; about sightseeing all day at that time I'd probably a long sleeved t shirt &amp; a medium weight jacket &amp; carry an extra cardigan or fleece, plus hat &amp; gloves, to put on if necessary. Unless the day started unusually warm or cold :-) It's worth checking the Scottish weather forecasts (although no further than 1 day ahead) - not 100% but gives you a clue.

P.S. On the theatre - I've just realised, I think the middle (full) week of your stay coincides with the schools' October holiday, so the likes of 'Mary Poppins' may be full of screaming kids...

Again - you have helped me a lot. We'll arrive on Oct. 11 for 5 days.

Hey Judy...we might run into each other! lol

Judy...sorry, you'll already be gone when I get there, huh? lol I hope you post to let us know how your trip went!

Thanks once again! I might go watch Mary Poppins...even with the possiblity of loud kids in the audience! lol

Wow...this is kind of eerie. Could have been me posting this! I'll be visiting a friend who lives in Livingston from October 19-27. Hopefully it's not the same guy! Haha.

He took the week off and I will have already visited Edinburgh earlier in October, but this thread has been great for ideas about little day trips.

Thanks for posting your question, and have a great trip! :)

ooh - that IS weird!! Just think of the possibilities :D

Sweetbippity, Wow that is weird! I would think if he had another friend coming to visit, he would've mentioned it to me. lol

I'm just hoping I can get the plane tickets to go the days I'm supposed to. I'll be ordering the tickets in about a week, but looking at bmi's website is confusing and I'll look at the dates I'm leaving and it'll show no flights, then I'll look again later and it shows a bunch. Oh boy. I've already gotten approved for my vacation at work for those dates, so I hope I can get a flight.

See you in Livingston, Sweetbippity....if we end up staying with the same friend, that is! lol

er, you haven't booked your flights yet ??? :-O Won't they be very expensive now ? Where are you coming from ?

your ok &quot;sweetbippity&quot; your not visiting me..lol and she is using mainly airmailes i have, which covers most of the flights &quot;caroline_edinburgh&quot; and Roslyn Chapel is a good idea, my aunt stays at the end of that private road so i can get a cuppa and a bite to eat..lol..anyway must dash, time for work....

Hi James - I wondered if it was maybe that. Although I've had difficulty getting bmi miles flights months ahead...

That's what I'm worried about Caroline. Using the airmiles, I don't have to pay much, but the little I do have to pay is what I've been saving up. Had some money left over from this last paycheck, and the next paycheck I'll have more, enough to book my flight. I really hope a miracle happens and I can get a flight since I've already got those days scheduled off.

Wishing you the best of luck, er. If nothing is showing on the website when you come to book, get James to try phoning.

Yeah, I think I will. Maybe if he's super sweet (which he is) to the representative, they will squeeze something in. lol

Oh my goodness - good luck! I've never been able to get ff flights w/o booking months out.

One normally has to nail down tickets before setting the travel dates.

Yes, how far does one book with air miles? I've never done it before and I want to use mine for our trip to Scotland in August.

Depends whose, I think. er77 is hoping to book with bmi miles. I've got quite a lot of theirs in hand myself but whenever I've looked at availability on their website, up to a year ahead, there's never been any availability for where I've been thinking to go. (But I think that maybe if I'd phoned up, there would have been more - I've just never taken it any further.) So I think that with airlines' ff schemes like that, it's best to book as soon as flights become available - get checking now !!

With the UK's Air Miles scheme (not linked to a particular airline) I always seem to find that not much shows up online but that doesn't seem to be very accurate, &amp; I can usually get what I want by phoning, certainly up to about 2 months before travelling.