Covid and Rosslyn

Today was so beautiful that we decided to go slightly further away and visit Roslin, not far outside Edinburgh. 

This is the notice outside what was once the Rosslyn Inn but is now a private house (below). It was built about 1660 and was visited, according to the notice, by Samuel Johnson and Edward VIII - though not at the same time. The plaque says it was given by an Australian lady whose father had been curator of Rosslyn Chapel. I wonder if she missed her home land. 

Rosslyn Chapel was built in the 1400s as a family chapel and is very intricately carved inside - well worth visiting, though currently closed because of Covid. The last time we were there must have been pre-The Da Vinci code, so probably 15 years ago or more. At that point, the chapel was surrounded by scaffolding and had a plastic roof over its original roof because it was slowly being repaired. The Da Vinci Code featured the Chapel (I haven't read it, though Mr L did and thought it was somewhat piffly) and since then it's been a fairly major tourist attraction - hence the building of this entrance way or perhaps exit way/exhibition hall - not sure. So the Chapel's now all mended. Which is good.

We walked past it and 

I stuck my camera through the fence. It doesn't look all that special from outside but it's very fancy indeed inside. 

It was refreshing to look into the distance - these are the Pentland Hills, which we can see from near our house, but from a different angle. 

And then we went down and walked along the river. Water babbled. Birds sang.

It was very peaceful. 

It did the soul good.