The Rosslyn Chapel Way.

For the first time in a week, Herself felt well enough to go out for a walk, so we strolled up to the digger on the wall from Thursday's Blip and, from there, back round behind what used to be a portion of the Roslin Institute known as the Poultry Research Centre. We used to take Jnr there quite often as there was a little paddock where we could watch a bunch of very pretty bantams strutting their stuff and playing “King of the Castle.” The path takes you through a pleasant planted woodland (the give-away sign is that the trees we very neatly regimented like soldiers in the barrack square), though the pattern is now broken by gaps where the trees have died and rotted away or have simply fallen over.
 
The road back into the village is now designated “The Rosslyn Chapel Way” which is part of a network of pilgrimage routes linking: Hexham, Carlisle, Iona, Aberdeen, Motherwell and Roslin with St Andrews. The Chapel Way bit takes you all the way to St Margaret’s Church at the top of Leith Walk. While it is unsurprising that you need to swim a bit to get from Iona to Mull and then from Mull to the mainland, I note with dismay that to get to the Top o’ the Walk the route indicates the need to swim across Duddingston Loch rather than walk around it. A slightly interesting feature of the sign is that the roundel incorporates an engrailed cross, an emblem associated with the St Clair family who built the chapel.