Most people have heard of the Free Fringe festival, and the line-up of comedy is superb. But there are loads of other lesser known free festivals and events going on in August.

Here are just a couple...

The International Book Festival has loads of free events - from the daily free poetry reading at 10am to the free live music in the Spiegelbar. There's also loads of free stuff for children, a daily storytime, nursery rhyme time for babies and free workshops.

The Festival Calvacade is a free parade of 3,000 performers from all the Edinburgh festivals - this year it kicks off in Holyrood Park on 9th August.

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival is a free video game festival, where budding gamers can road test and watch screenings of new games.

Great Guide to free events:

blog.hostelbookers.com/travel/edinburgh-festivals-for-free/

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