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Fri 07 Jul 2007StagestruckPeter Crawleyon the Edinburgh bingeEdinburgh just doesn't make sense. It is the only city in the world, for instance, where your journey anywhere will involve a steep hike uphill, but the journey back will somehow be uphill too - as though the place were balanced on a giant seesaw. Add to this a climate somehow colder and wetter than our own, and it means that the only species that really thrive here are such hardy creatures as sea birds, Starbucks and, of course, the Scots.