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WWW.EDINBURGHAIRPORT.COM SECTION {Sub-section} ISSUE 01 CAPITALAUGUST 2012 EDINBURGH AIRPORT FASHION LIFESTYLE SHOPPING TRAVEL Disney’s Brave movie 8 Madonna hits Edinburgh 14 Magical malts 24 Fun in Frankfurt 63 NEW ROUTE OPENS FROM EDINBURGH TO ISTANBUL TaKE OFF FOR TURKISH AIRLINES 1 SECTION {Sub-section} 2 ~ AUGUST 2012 ~ CAPITAL EDINbuRGH AIRPORT’s pASSENGER MAGAZINE 8 FILM 40 MUSIC BRAVE OLD SOUNDS IN 54 WORLD THE CITY Disney/Pixar’s new movie Music venue Liquid Room looks set to put Scotland has plenty of great acts firmly on the map 48 FlyiNG HIGH 12 WORLD DUTY FREE TO LONDON GET YOURSELF IN STYLE BEAUTIFUL British Airways takes travellers Buy before you fly at the to the heart of London airport’s ‘one-stop shop’ for beauty products 50 SHOPPING FOR ALL THAT 14 EVENTS GLITTERS SENSATIONAL Hamilton & Inches is a jewel SuMMER in the crown of shopping Discover the amazing things you can do in Edinburgh 52 BUSINESS EASTERN 22 ATTRACTIONS INSPIRATION TIME TRAVEL Scotland’s ‘curry king’ talks TO REMEMBER about his rise to successful Explore more than 70 historic businessman attractions and 5,000 years of Scotland’s history 54 TRAVEL TURKISH 24 WORLD DUTY FREE DELIGHT WORLD OF New flights from Edinburgh WHISKIES to Istanbul open up the Whether you’re a novice Turkish capital 14 22 or an expert, there’ll be a whisky to suit your taste 58 TRAVEL at Edinburgh Airport ANOTHER 26 DISTILLERIES ROUND WORLDS Turkey makes its name as a APART top-class golf destination Roseisle and Edradour 63 TRAVEL share the same ‘spirit’ that makes Scotland’s national FRANKLY drink so great FRANKFURT Germany’s financial city has 32 VENUES much to offer visitors 8 A ROOM WITH A VIEW REGULARS Take in some of Edinburgh’s 43 Airport news most stunning views from the 41 Destination map city’s top hotels and venues 66 Tail plane column 52 58 Capital is written, designed and published by Connect Communications (Scotland) Ltd on behalf of Edinburgh Airport. www.connectcommunications.co.uk The views expressed in Capital are those of invited contributors and not necessarily those of Edinburgh Airport. Edinburgh Airport accepts no liability to any person for loss or damage suffered as a consequence of their responding to, or placing reliance upon, any claim or representation made in any advertisement appearing in Capital. 3 WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT WWW.EDINBURGHAIRPORT.COM Welcome to Edinburgh Airport Already we are seeing significant SECTION {Sub-section} ISSUE 01 and to Capital magazine. Capital is our new developments. Our cover star – Turkish CAPITALAUGUST 2012 passenger magazine, designed to give you all Airlines, also usher in this new era. Our new EDINBURGH AIRPORT FASHION the information you’ll ever need about our Istanbul service is a big step for Edinburgh LIFESTYLE SHOPPING TRAVEL airport and a little bit more. Airport. Istanbul is not only one of the Disney’s Brave movie 8 Madonna hits Edinburgh 14 Magical malts 24 Our launch comes at a hugely exciting world’s great cities but also an emerging Fun in Frankfurt 63 time for Edinburgh Airport. We’re under new hub, connecting Scotland to hundreds of owners, having recently been sold to GIP, destinations across the world. owners of Gatwick and London City Airports, Turkish Airlines is one of the world’s in an £807 million deal. leading airlines and they’ve come to NEW ROUTE OPENS FROM EDINBURGH TO ISTANBUL And we have just won the award for Edinburgh because they know it’s a great city TAKE OFF FOR Europe’s Best Airport 2012… for the second and, importantly, it’s a city which people want TURKISH AIRLINES year in a row! to visit, work and live in. 1 The theme of this year’s Airports Council So, these two great pieces of news sum International awards was: “Putting the up what we’re about at Edinburgh Airport GO TO passenger first”. It’s an ethos we have always and what will continue to be at the core of TURKEY! had and will continue to have at the heart of what we do – great passenger service and Our launch issue looks at the our business values. a growing range of routes and destinations infinite possibilities Turkish In presenting us with the award, the across the world. Airlines’ new flights to judges said they had been impressed by the As well as being available in the airport, Istanbul open up for airport’s focus on its customer base – both Capital is available on our website – www. passengers passengers and airlines – and in particular by edinburghairport.com – and on Lothian our response to customer feedback. Buses’ excellent 100 service to the city centre. This approach will be central to our So, I hope you enjoy Capital magazine and thinking under GIP’s leadership and anyone will join with us in taking Edinburgh Airport who has travelled through Gatwick or to even greater levels of excellence. We’d like City airports will know the transformation to hear from you about what you’d like to see that has occurred under their ownership. in the magazine, how you’d like to receive it Edinburgh will be no different. and what you think of this first issue. In this first issue of Capital, our new CEO Happy reading. and COO outline the changes you can expect to see in the airport and lay out very clearly Gordon Robertson, how we’re going to improve our airport in Head of Communications the months ahead. www.edinburghairport.com/feedback 5 FILM {Brave} | WORDS: HANNAH McGILL | It may be the work of animation magic, but the new film from Pixar captures what makes Scotland beautiful – from the scenery to the people ONLY THE BRAVE Fiesty main character Merida takes her destiny into her own hands 8 {Brave} FILM The impressions of Scotland that can be gleaned from cinema are varied, from the prissy propriety of Miss Jean Brodie’s 1930s Edinburgh to the troubled urban lives portrayed by Ken Loach. But a new film, Pixar’s long-gestated animated fantasy Brave, looks set to colour the concept of Scotland carried by a whole generation of cinemagoers. The animated films that we encounter as children impress upon us deeply; and Brave, with its tempestuous tomboy heroine and its breathtaking action sequences, has plenty to appeal to the imagination. Grown-up viewers, meanwhile, will appreciate the staggering lengths to which the Pixar animators have gone to capture the textures and 9 FILM {Brave} colours of the Scottish landscape, and the cheeky humour that powers the script. Set in medieval times, Brave engages with certain Scottish stereotypes without turning its characters into jokes. If the ravishing depiction of the Scottish landscape adds authenticity, it also helps a good deal that real Scottish actors – among them Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd and Billy Connolly – dominate the voice cast. Pixar head honcho and Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter had dreamed of paying onscreen tribute to the beauties of Scotland since visiting as a student. “I was so excited about setting a story in Scotland,” he said. “I spent two weeks travelling around with computers,” Lasseter explained. “The The theme of the film when I graduated from college, and just computer likes to make things clean and is families finding a fell in love – the setting, the people, the perfect, but everything in the background of middle ground magic, the stories, the humour. It never left Brave has to have a sense of history; it’s very my heart. And so when Brave was pitched far from clean and perfect.” to me all those years ago, I knew it would Yet despite Pixar’s notoriously painstaking be a fantastic setting. I had never seen an research processes (Brave took seven years animated film set in medieval Scotland.” to realise), the real Scots on the voice cast It meant Pixar extending still further were invaluable when it came to festooning the capabilities of its artists and animators. the script with appropriately Celtic- “We had never done a historically based sounding linguistic flourishes. “It was really story, and that’s very challenging to achieve important to have Scottish actors, and we WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN TWO TICKETS TO THE FINAL NIGHT OF TO BE THERE ON THE GLORIOUS FINAL THE 2012 ROYAL EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO NIGHT SIMPLY ANSWER THIS QUESTION: COURTESY OF THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. Q: How many years is a It’s one of the world’s most spectacular Diamond Jubilee? entertainment events and this year a host of creative talent from four continents pays Email your answers giving your name and email sparkling tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s address or telephone number to: Diamond Jubilee. [email protected] or post your answer and details to: rbscomp, Connect Communications, Studio 2001, Mile End, Paisley, PA1 1JS Closing date: 31 July 2012 Entrants must be aged 18 or over (employees or agents of RBS Group, their families or anyone connected with the promotion are not eligible to participate). Entry constitutes your acceptance of these rules. The promoter reserves the right to alter, amend or withdraw these terms and conditions or the prize draw without prior notice. Only one entry per person. The draw is governed by Scottish law and by entering you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts. One winner will be selected at random. The prize consists of one pair of tickets to the 2012 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo perfromance at 10:30pm on 25 August 2012. The prize does not include travel to and from the sites or hospitality at the venues.