Keep Moving - Week 8

Local woods and railway line all week, all be it trying to vary it a little.  A path around Woodhall woods brought this fabulous memorial into sight.  Inscribed to James MacBrayne and Florence Mary Anderson Forbes it reads "Their ashes lie in this field which was formerly derelict and is now dedicated to their memory" 

Saturday was another day of aqueducts and tunnels, on the hunt for new places to walk we ventured into West Lothian and Falkirk.  Starting at Muiravonside Country park we walked around the petting zoo and sculpture park (cafe not open, I swear a higher power is helping with this diet, if not aiding my cheery demeanour!) and then climbed up the Avon Aqueduct which is the largest in Scotland measuring 247m long and towering 26m above the river.  Continuing the hunt for coffee we moved on to the Falkirk tunnel, more like a cave with a rough natural interior it was blasted out by Irish Navvies around 200 years ago.  Included in this workforce was Burke and Hare, the murderers who stalked people in early-1800s Edinburgh, killed them and sold them to the anatomy school.  As I was STILL in coffee deficit we moved on again to the Falkirk Wheel and with a little sweet talking the lovely staff at just closed cafe launched a take away latte into my hands and kept me going for another stroll along the canal and through the Roughcastle tunnel.