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Faith Liddell, 44, director, Festivals Edinburgh I'd start my day with a hearty Scottish breakfast in the brasserie of the Scotsman hotel, tel: (44-131) 556 5565. Then I'd walk down the Royal Mile and climb Arthur's Seat, a little bit of highland landscape right in the center of the city. Afterward, I'd head to the National Museum of Scotland, tel: (44-131) 225 7534, not forgetting the museum's Tower Restaurant, tel: (44-131) 225 3003, where both the food and the views are fabulous. Next stop would be the Scottish National Gallery of Modern...
...Swedish bakery where they bake everything on-site and the outdoor terrace is the perfect place to sit and relax. Then I'd take the car to Cramond, a picturesque former fishing village a 20-minute drive north of Edinburgh, for a long walk along the beach and seafront. There's also a direct bus. The afternoon would find me back in the city at Ondine, tel: (44-131) 226 1888, eating oysters at their horseshoe-shaped crustacean bar. I'd then make my way to meet friends for cocktails at the new Hotel Missoni...
...Many dispersed only to regroup on the long walk west. Car horns blared furiously. "Allah-o Akbar" could be heard from rooftops all around...
...Hambantota, another town on the south coast, the houses have been built too fast, some say. In Siribopura, a massive tsunami rehousing scheme spanning over nearly 600 acres (240 hectares). Over 1500 houses have sprung up in an area where elephants used to walk. Businessmen complain that the development's new market and business complex is too far out from the former city center, and some residents working in the fishing industry who found it too difficult to commute between between the new housing in Siribopura and the beach have already sublet their new units to move closer...
...revolutionary hero - by making pilgrimages to her birthplace of Hoeryong, a town in the northeast. Three days later, they are given a day off work for Constitution Day. Even New Years' Day is more about revolutionary zeal than ushering in 2010, when thousands of North Koreans will walk in a yearly procession to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace at the northeast outskirts of the capital to pay homage to the preserved body of Kim Il Sung, the father of North Korea. (See pictures of Kim Jong...