No Place Like Home

Scots are well known for their loyalty to their native land and even more so for their unswerving loyalty to the place of their birth.

A well known citizen of a Scottish Border town had returned from a visit to Paris and, in conversation with his cronies, admitted that the French capital indeed had its good points but, in his opinion, it couldn't hold a candle to their own town.  After all, he told his cronies, it was a simple fact that it was -

"Peebles for pleesure."