After a long hard and cold winter, and endless roadworks associated with the Council’s pointless and much hated Tram development which has seen the most beautiful shopping street in the world turned into a dusty, grimey building site full of collosal machines and men in bright yellow jackets and hard hats, it is easy to forget how lovely this city is.

But once you get away from the Tram workings, once the sun comes out and the clouds scatter. Wow! You are reminded of the reality.

Edinburgh.