Louise Dickins owns Dickins and has lived and worked in the city since 1995. Previously she had lived in Hong Kong for 5 years where she qualified as a chartered surveyor and ran her own business bringing art exhibitions out from Britains to sell in Hong Kong. She started organising festival lets back in 1998 and expanded that business to offer short lets and holiday lets all year round in 2006.
- The Festival
I love the Edinburgh Festival. Being a small cog in the great big machine that makes the Festival happen every year, gives me a real buzz and makes me feel very proud. The fact that you can step out of your front door to see the very best of the world has to offer culturally, makes us Edinburgh folk some of the luckiest people in the world every August. Sadly my stamina for continuously late nights is waning, but every now and then walking back home over North Bridge at 5 o'clock in the morning, after an action packed evening of shows feels great!
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Edinburgh's architecture
I feel so lucky, that in running Dickins, I constantly have the chance to look at some very beautiful apartments and houses all over the city. Whether it is a Georgian New Town flat with stunning architectural details, or an older apartment in the Old Town up stairs steeped in history and with a view out over the Edinburgh skyline, the range of properties I see is amazing. But it is also fascinating to catch glimpses of the inside of New Town flats as you walk past. In living and working in the centre of Edinburgh, when you are outside, your eyes are nearly always looking at something beautiful and that view of old Edinburgh from Princes Street as the sun i setting never fails to impress. -
Bumping into people
If you can be a bit lazy about keeping in touch with friends like me, then walking around Edinburgh is perfect as you always seem to bump into someone and get the chance to catch up. Edinburgh is a big village really. A good catch up on the street is far better than Facebook! -
I love the fact that Edinburgh sits on hills
It means that there are so many vistas where you see far beyond the edge of the city. Sienna in Italy sits on a hill too and it has the same effect. Outside our office you can see out to the Firth of Forth and over to Fife. Edinburgh really is a fantastic city to live and work in, but it feels good to know that there is countryside outside the city and that it is not too far away. -
Sitting on my roof terrace
I feel very lucky to live in a flat which has a little roof terrace which has wonderful views over Edinburgh chimney pots and up to Calton Hill. It faces West so gets the best of the evening sun. I grow plants, herbs and vegetable sup there and even have an apple and pear tree. Watering my plants, cooking our supper on a little barbeque or just sitting there with a glass of wine always feels lovely.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary.Do you understand?
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