I have always appreciated the beauty of Edinburgh, the historic buildings, the shoreline, the imposing castle, the people. My training walks however have shown me a whole new side of Edinburgh, its hills, its rivers, the nature and the beauty, all of it within the city, within a walk of my house.
Today we decided to explore the Water of Leith. We headed down the canal to slateford and dropped on to the level of the river. I've only ever done this stretch of canal walking downstream so we weren't exactly sure where the upstream entrance was. We took a path, we found trees and water but it wasn't the usual path. Instead we found ourselves wandering past Kates Mill and the Dell to Collinton village. Beautiful area.
The GPS tracker lost signal deep in the trees but from the tracking on the way back we probably did between 12 and 13 miles in total. We're clearly getting fitter as we kept a good pace yet didn't really feel we were pushing ourselves and were able to keep a conversation going (except on the uphill parts but that's to be expected).
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