Edinburgh is a gorgeous city — as the nearly 4 million tourists who visit every year can attest. That’s a lot of tourists for a city of half a million people. The residents of Edinburgh, like those who live in other tourist hot spots, are beginning to wonder if all this attention isn’t ruining their …
If crowds of tourists snapping a phone-pic of the Mona Lisa send you screaming for the exits, you are my kind of tourist. I had the good fortune to see the Mona Lisa in the 1970s. She wasn’t even behind plexiglass. My friend and I walked right up to her, admired Leonardo’s brushstrokes, concluded that …