Food for Thoughts: Kyloe at the Rutland Hotel (Edinburgh)

First World War prime minister David Lloyd George commented of fellow Liberal politician John Simon, one time pupil of Fettes College in Edinburgh, that: "He has sat so long on the fence that the iron has entered his soul." This came to mind as I approached the Rutland Hotel at the western end of Princes Street. There were fences everywhere. Assuming Simon’s favourite position would have at least offered an overview of a pedestrian flow system that might have been designed by Salvador Dali.