gloom

There's an appealing dankness to the Cowgate. The first time I walked along it it was damp, misty and rainy and as the sun only reaches it for a couple of days a year you might as well like the murk. It's just a pity for all the people walking or cycling to or from work along it that there are nose-to-tail cars all the way, westbound in the morning and eastbound at night and nowhere for their filthy exhaust-gases to go...