ate in the Highlands of Scotland, regarded by many as being one of the finest partridge shoots in the UK. Teams fly in, some in private planes, to Inverness airport, just a 25 minute drive away. Being a small airport, customs and gun control couldn't be more straightforward, making it one of the simple

ere negotiated away and host countries ran things themselves. Back to my father in Scotland, where he was visiting his old friends the Maxwells near Inverness, and then to the two-room suite at the Ritz in London about like the one in Paris. He drove the six hundred miles between, in a vintage Cadillac, tak