Princes Street at Christmas

Went for a wee wander down Princes Street tonight, me and everybody else in Edinburgh with a camera on a tripod it seemed but none were as stupid to stand in the middle of the road taking pics!

This is the big wheel that arrives every Christmas and goes away again in the New Year. This all started with the Winter Carnival in Waterloo place (just past the clock tower) a few years back. It was there for 3 days or so and moved on, now it's a skating rink, ferris wheel and other various bits a pieces designed to fleece the money off unsuspecting city centre visitors whch all take up residence in the east part of Princes Street Gardens.

With the street open to traffic again for December before the tram works move in again it's a golden opportunity to get the famous street with no unsightly roadworks and with the traffic moving.

We bit hacked off at the lens flaring going on in the shots tonight, might be a dirty lens or just not a competent enough photographer!