Edinburgh's alternative tour guides show 'more real' side of city

Edinburgh: Edinburgh, one of the most visited cities in Europe, is offering tourists the chance to see it from a different angle through the eyes o...

Edinburgh: Edinburgh, one of the most visited cities in Europe, is offering tourists the chance to see it from a different angle -- through the eyes of tour guides who have slept on its streets.

"When you're homeless, people don't look at you. They look through you," the founder of the Invisible Cities initiative, Zakia Moulaoui Guery, told AFP.

Sonny Murray, 45, knows this only too well. He came to Invisible Cities after a spell being constantly in and out of prison.

"It was brutal, to be honest. Because I was addicted to drugs and stuff," he said.

"I was shoplifting ... when I wasn't in prison, I was coming back out and I was homeless on the streets, just like a revolving door," he said.