Standing on Edinburgh’s Castle Street, one way the magnificent castle hewed from primal volcanic rock, forged by centuries of history and struggle, but now bathed in rare soft evening sunshine. The other way, the elegant grid of the New Town (only 250 years old) looking down to the Firth of Forth and beyond, the ancient
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An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman met on a train bound for the end of the United Kingdom. Not even out of London and the politics began. “Have you brought your passport?” The Englishman was teased. Later when he had lost his ticket, we said he was lucky there were no border guards