Culture shock ( Read more... )

"Scotland Not Britain" reads one oft-repeated chalking on the buildings of Edinburgh's Old City. "End English Rule!" is proudly marked on a building across the laneway. Nationalistic pride is strong in Bonnie Scotland, but I think they have it all wrong - far from being under English rule, this part of the world appears to have quietly become ( Read more... )

I've spent most of today swallowed up within the vast grey void of the international airport domain, as the airlines decided to send me from Dublin to Edinburgh via Heathrow ( Read more... )