Rachel Gregson27, is a barmaid at Cabaret Voltaire and recent winner of Bar Personality of the Year
1 What is your earliest memory of Edinburgh? I moved to Edinburgh when I was 17 and most of my earliest memories are of student parties, Wilkie House and working away in Fat Sams.
2 What are your memories of school? Getting bullied and learning it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you.
3 Where is your favourite place in Edinburgh and why? I love the Old Town, just wandering around, picturing what it would have been like hundreds of years ago, and Arthur's Seat of course.
4 What are the best things about Edinburgh? Apart from all the architecture, art galleries, green spaces and amazing restaurants, I think my favourite thing about the city is all the crazy people that end up here. Most people I meet come to stay for a couple of months and end up staying for years.
5 What would you change about the city? I would stop them tearing down all the old beautiful buildings just so they can put up cloned office blocks – we are about to lose our World Heritage status because of all these monstrosities popping up. Oh, and the trams.
6 Describe a perfect Edinburgh day/night out. To start, a brisk yomp up Arthur's Seat. Follow that by a meal at my favourite restaurant, Wedgewood. Montiefs next for cocktails then either rock out at Whistle Binkies or on to Cab for more cocktails in the Speakeasy.
7 Which sports interest you? I love football and try to get to as many games as possible. Anything Scotland is competing in usually gets my attention and darts, I get obsessed every January for the world championships, sometimes even taking time off work.
8 What was your most embarrassing moment? Shamefully, there are too many to pick from but most spectacular was break-dancing watching Grand Master Flash (my hero) and messing up my best move and ending up in a pile of tangled, broken limbs in front of nearly a thousand people and the first one I saw when I looked up was the God himself laughing uncontrollably.
9 What is your greatest achievement? Making it this far alive and well.
10 Sum up Edinburgh in three words. Manic, beautiful, unexpected
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