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From: The Sunday Herald | Date: January 13, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

IT'S strange, but whenever people talk of Europe, I always think of exotic places across the Channel: Paris, the Riviera, Rome, Seville, the Alps. I always forget that I am European. This stems largely from being Scottish, milk-bottle coloured and being permanently covered up. I have always been in awe of real Europeans first glimpsed on early teenage holidays. They always seemed so blase, so effortlessly cool; insouciant, suntanned, with great clothes. Frizzy and freckly were definitely outwith their realm of experience.

But I am a sucker for the European way of doing things; I love the ...

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