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   Nov 11

The town

Next in the “how to survive in Aberdeen” series: It’s not exactly a metropolis. There’s a reason why the student society arranges Christmas shopping trips to Glasgow. Night life is still impressive for an Oslonian, people do know how to party. Beware, alcohol prices have dropped 60 % in the last decade or two, and […]

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   Oct 07

[Not backdated – fresh from the block]

I like the way they sell cakes by writing ‘butter’ on them, even if there’s no butter in them. Butter is far from a word of honour where I’m from… The library here has the most fantastic books, and they can be borrowed a whole year! I got a most fascinating book on the Picts […]

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