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Why there will always be a little corner of Scotland in the Sunshine State

Dunedin is a town of cyclists, shrimp sandwiches, craft breweries, and cocktail happy hours. With pastel coloured cafes and seashell-jewelled boutiques the Florida town encourages an unhurried holiday feeling, all year round. I leave Edinburgh with huge puddles on the tarmac and slate-grey skies on a flight full of Disneyland-bound families in Mickey Mouse ears. While they head east from Tampa to Orlando, I travel west towards Tampa Bay, where cities are built on islands and sandbanks, and multi-lane highways are suspended above shallow, once swampy waters.