On holiday, do you believe everything you are told by the locals? The question crossed my mind on a walk around the Port Appin peninsula in Argyll when I came across a spectacular stone archway in a cliff caused by centuries of sea erosion. A man walking his dog passed me on the path and said over his shoulder: “If you stand under the arch and whistle a tune, you get a wish.”
Now, call me a cynic, but the first image that crossed my mind was this guy propping up a local bar that evening and saying to his pals: “You’ll never guess the story I made up for some tourists today.” But as Humphrey Bogart was instructed in To Have Or Have Not