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Mattjimf:
Potato. @bieberauhlsykes
i saw people running during the amazing race when i was buying starbucks eheheee.
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5:02 PM - 3 Dec 12 · Details
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40m Matthew Forbes @Mattjimf
@bieberauhlsykes Hi, where did this happen?
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2m Potato. @bieberauhlsykes
@mattjimf Edinburgh c:
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26s Matthew Forbes @Mattjimf
@bieberauhlsykes Where about in Edinburgh, trying to figure out if it was the US version as they are racing just now and were in Berlin?
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Trying to find out if it's definitely the US version and will head into town to have a look.
doofus:
I thought I saw an Amazing Race team on Monday in Edinburgh. I actually just joined this forum just to see if anyone else had seen teams there as well.
The details.
My wife, our two boys, and my in-laws were checking out of our hotel to catch the 17:00 train to London.
We were staying at the Holiday Inn Express on Cowgate. We were walking out of the door around 16:00.
As we were all getting outside we noticed a bright light 10 yards away. There was a 2-man camera crew filming two people walking into the hotel. They went inside to ask the person at the desk something. The film crew stayed outside. From what I remember one of the persons was a blonde woman. In her 20's I think with a fair bit of makeup. I think the other person was a blonde woman as well, but to be honest they walked by us before I noticed that they were the focus of the film crew so the other could have been a bald man from what I remember!
What made me think they were Racers?
It was two people and a film crew of two.
They exited a brand new silver Ford hatchback. (Ford is the usual make for the races, yes?)
The Ford had a small yellow-red-yellow flag stuck on the inside on the windshield. Just like a little Amazing Race symbol.
They went into a Holiday Inn Express to ask directions. (Americans looking for something familiar?)
I asked one of the film crew if they were filming for the Amazing Race.
One replied, in an American accent, that they "wished" they were filming the Race, but they were filming some other "copy-cat" show.
I left it at that, wished the crew luck, and we headed off to Waverly station to catch our train.
I thought maybe I should get a photo of the team/crew/car, but then I thought better of it and just let them run the race if that's what was going on.
Did we see the Amazing Race? I suppose we'll have to wait to see if we're all on camera next season!
georgiapeach:
:bigwelcome to RFF doofus! Thank you so much for sharing!
Mattjimf:
That would correspond with this -
--- Quote ---@Mattjimf They were in a brand new silver Ford with a film crew of two. Yellow-red-yellow badge in the window.
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32m JMO @LourdBaltimore
@Mattjimf @bieberauhlsykes Could have sworn I saw two racers yesterday in EDN. Holiday Inn Express on Cowgate around 16:00.
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It may have been doofus that sent me the tweets.
If they were driving, they may have been heading for the Royal Yacht Britannia, the zoo or the Forth Road Bridge (for views over to the Forth Rail Bridge).
If they were in the Cowgate, they could have been looking for Holyrood (Scottish Parliment), Our Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Palace (Queen's offical residence in Scotland), Grayfrier's Kirkyard (home of Greyfrier's Bobby), Scott's Monument (dedicated to Sir Walter Scott) or the Castle (although you really can't miss that).
I've attached a map highlighting the places above (this is where I concentrated looking last night seeing as I didn't have much to go on, but that they were probably in Edinburgh city centre) and the Royal Mile.
georgiapeach:
Thanks Matt!
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