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THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT

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You can travel the world on a Hebridean beach.

Each outgoing tide leaves behind stories: flotsam, jetsam, bookshelves and messages in bottles.

Or you can stay at home and wander the lampposts of Edinburgh.

Some poles include only the tight-packed prose of traffic regulation orders. Others are adhesive palimpsests, competing tales like barnacles encrusting rocks.

Berlin ‘s illicit drug scene features often, as do fascist football casuals from across the Continent. ­