Many city tours are either generic, big-group walks – in which you are fed dry facts with no particular theme – or super-cheesy, "we're-not-like-the-other-tours" experiences, where you are guided by someone wearing a trilby and strumming a ukelele while telling tales of local cult legends.
But here in Scotland there are legends too.
So some legends have been carted out, Beetson has been duly honoured, and the fireworks are lighting up the night sky.
I thought, "Oh my gosh, I'm with Mickey Mouse!" I met huge stars like Jimmy Stewart, appeared on shows like The West Wing and Saturday Night Live, and sang with legends Michael Jackson and Ray Charles.
While the players were making themselves legends on the pitch, Herbert Zimmerman was doing likewise in the commentary box.
Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
Russia's elite clubbers have almost become the stuff of legends.
"It was also for the absolute legends of my game who came before us.
The roots of my thinking are a tangled maze of myths, folktales, legends, fairy stories.
The tales and myths and legends made it clear to me that there was another world, beside the world of having to be a child in a house, an inner world and a vast outer world with large implications – good and evil, angels and demons, fate and love, and terror and beauty.
The film opens with a subtle disclaimer: Here now begins one of the most famous, and at the same time, the most infamous of the legends that are attached to the crown of England.
