The criminals are so many steps ahead of the police that it's embarrassing. (View Post)

I would have thought that having a tourism deficit was a sign of success. It shows the country is rich enough to travel the world, and yet is not itself overrun with enough tourists to balance the le… (View Post)

We ended up living in Edinburgh because that was the University my wife found a PhD supervisor at who she got on well with. I then started a job with a Glasgow company. It did not escape my notice th… (View Post)

The problem with Edinburgh is that, because it's so nice in so many ways, there are too many tourists. When I lived there I always felt that I was having to wade through tourists every time I was in … (View Post)

Of course she knew she needed one - the estate agents told her [husband] they would do the paperwork to get her one. (View Post)