Many years ago I had been travelling around the world for a year and came back to Edinburgh. I took a trip into town and sat upstairs at the front of the bus as it came around the corner at the West End of Princes Street and thought – of all the places I have seen in the world it still has to be one of the most beautiful. I had that same feeling yesterday.
As the confines within which we are able to function has shrunk, I have been trying to work out how I can still (safely) tackle this challenge and the promise that I made to myself.
So I set off out my front door with Bella and turned right. Along the East beach and around the top of the Glen. Down past Daisy Island and along the beach before the scramble up to Drift Cafe. It’s a walk I’ve done a number of times but in the context of the walks I’ve done in the last few months, it was clearly still one of the most beautiful.
On reaching Drift I decided to push on a bit further and walk to Seacliff Beach. It’s a bit frustrating that the stretch before Tantallon Castle including Canty Bay and Gin Head don’t allow for coastal walking and the road to Seacliff has no path. So a quick jump over a fence into a field and back out again had to do.
Walking the Seacliff circuit on foot rather than in a car was a nice change but it was a quick march back to NB before my fingers fell off.
Finished with a photo of home.
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