Category: Global Gossip 2010
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Welcome back to Edinburgh: you’ll have had your tram?
Berlin town planning with a purpose Some homecoming. For a week we explored the most exciting city in Europe. We rode trains, trams and buses to the centre and one sunny day we took the train in the other direction to discover the public housing estate that was inspired by Britain’s first garden cities. We…
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Island dreams and reality
On summer holidays we dreamed of living on the island. We picked drift wood on the beach to fire the old Rayburn for the evening meal. When wind battered the cottage at night we poured whisky and listened to the radio crackling news from the mainland. It was all part of the dream (not the…