Muddy walk

Categories: places

Date: 18 March 2012 19:01:54

Today the weather was lovely so we got out and about, at lunchtime we made our way over to Bridge of Allan and then did this walk from BoA to Dunblane (well, I say we did that walk, we got a bit confused at the beginning, so the first bit of our walk featured a bit more local housing and a bit less riverbank than intended; we managed to find our way eventually and rejoined it about half way through the second paragraph where it talks about the path dropping down through a leafy gully and a second bridge over a tributary). It was a lovely (though very muddy) walk - not too onerous, but enough to make us sweat a bit without being miserable! (I am such a fair weather walker). I am stiff as a board now though!

Here are some pictures from the walk:

The cave is thought to be the inspiration for Ben Gunn's cave in "Treasure Island" - the author Robert Louis Stevenson was a local, and apparently spent lots of time here as a boy. The church is Dunblane Cathedral.

Inside the Cathedral was this ancient carved cross; also very movingly was this tribute to those who died in the shootings in Dunblane Primary School in 1996:

For those of you who were amused by my account on facebook this morning of HD's preferred activity for the day, this was taken at the end of the walk. Here he is on the bridge at Stirling Station, taking pictures of the signals:

There's a few more (and you can see them all a decent size) in the flickr set.