NB: This is a true story! If my friend Paula – then, a more experienced traveler than I – could have seen me on Oct 23rd 2000 at about 5 PM, she would have cried with laughter. I had just sat back behind the steering wheel of my rented car in Edinburgh’s busy city center and I was wiping my face, drenched as I was from a short run into a rainstorm. Actually, I was about to burst into tears...