RodH

Born and raised in Dunfermline, it’s a nice quiet town with plenty for any visitors to enjoy, such as Andrew Carnegie’s birthplace and the grave of Robert the Bruce in Dunfermline Abbey (if all you know about Robert the Bruce comes from the film Braveheart then ignore it, the film’s storyline is utter balls). Dunfermline has a premier league football team – Dunfermline Athletic and gave the world of music groups such as The Skids and Big Country.

Been living in Edinburgh for just over 10 years now, and seen it change a lot in that time. The city centre seems to embody more and more the whole Jekyll and Hyde nature of the place (J & H being based on Deacon Brodie, a real life character, and fairly average pub), with Princes Street looking beautiful in terms of the buildings but then you have the little neds (chavs) running around with bottle of Buckfast. Quick rule of thumb for visitors is to avoid people in tracksuits, especially if they are wearing baseball caps at angles of greater than 30 degrees to the horizontal, either they’re Neds who may start channelling the spirit of Begbie at any moment, or they are people with no sense of style and decorum anyway. That aside there are many great sights to see in the city if you’re visiting, and all fairly close together, for crime fiction fans I’d recommend a pint in the Oxford Bar on Young Street, the spiritual home of Rebus and a fine place for a steak pie and to watch rugby. Anything you want to know, just ask.

Mormons..weird lot, but good film festival