Of the 22% of adults planning a trip during the Easter holidays, 61% will stay away for at least one night in the UK, while 29% will go abroad.  Is the tide beginning to turn?  I can only speak personally, I certainly am appreciating the UK more and more, particularly as I spend more time visiting areas when writing my guides.  I have lived within a one hour drive of Edinburgh for the majority of my life and yet seen so little of it.
I was in the Edinburgh area yesterday doing some research for an off the beaten track guide to Edinburgh.  Although the weather wasn’t great, cloudy with a cool wind I thought what a beautiful city.  I was in Holyrood Park, I could hardly believe I was in a city.  I was on the shores of Loch Duddingston looking up to Arthur’s Seat in Holyrood Park.