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I'd need to check the deeds

I believe we're not allowed to keep a pig (Edwardian terrace)

I'm all in favour of tourist taxes. But I also think 'beneficial but needs management ' is mostly right. But high tourism does tend to boost restaurants and cafes and squeeze out ordinary useful shops and affordable rents

We spent a month in Florence in October-November for my husband's work, and the centre was still absolutely choked with tourists queuing for the Duomo, the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti etc. If it's that bad in October I can't bear to think what July would have been like!

I take the point. But I do feel in some tourist hot-spots it's unfair if locals get squeezed out.

Mostly uplifting - but I was sooo traumatised by the chapter titled The Valley of the Shadow 😭

There's a River Ox??

Honourable mention, though, to Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire where the guided tour was compulsory but a) they provided plenty of seating at various points, and b) the guide was exceptionally entertaining. I think he may have been an actor 'resting' (not resting) between parts