It was interesting to see on the front page of the FT last week visitors to COP26 complaining that the nearest accommodation to the conference was in Edinburgh, 45 miles away. “Our people are coming from the other side of the world and the closest accommodation is in Edinburgh,” said Pacific Island group coordinator Tagaloa Cooper-Halo.
I got this comment from my uncle David Kemp via emal : "Not that it matters a jot, but the kilted hitchhiker who refused the lift to Edinburgh was actually coming from Barcelona. My friend it happened to was the late Norman Buchan, the MP, who'd been at a European Cup game, and a detail I always liked was that the hitcher was clinging to a palm tree by the side of the route nationale sept to keep himself upright!"
I got this comment from my uncle David Kemp via emal : "Not that it matters a jot, but the kilted hitchhiker who refused the lift to Edinburgh was actually coming from Barcelona. My friend it happened to was the late Norman Buchan, the MP, who'd been at a European Cup game, and a detail I always liked was that the hitcher was clinging to a palm tree by the side of the route nationale sept to keep himself upright!"