Edinburgh uncovered

In Scotland there’s an almost unspoken rule: when the sun’s out, drop everything and go enjoy it while you can. So, as I stood in the kitchen of my Airbnb contemplating what to have for breakfast, the sight of a morning sky growing bluer and bluer was enough to make me ignore my appetite, reach for the camera and keys, and rush out the door in excitement. WEATHER FORECAST I’d come to Edinburgh, that elegant city of cobbled streets once home to some of the world’s most revered writers (Sherlock Holmes’s Arthur Conan Doyle and Treasure Island’s Robert Lois Stevenson are just two of a very large pool) with low expectations weather-wise. “It always rains there,” people warned me. In truth, this isn’t quite correct : official statistics show the…

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