Pentlands Walk

Joelle, Matt, Lindsey and I went for a stroll through the Pentlands - the usual starting and finishing places for me, catching the bus to Balerno, and home again from Penicuik. It's the inbetween that usually changes for me - sometimes I'll walk all the peaks, sometimes half, or sometimes just sticking to the flat. This time we just stuck to the flat, as I had guests who weren't that used to long walks.

I was pleasantly surprised to have them come with me; Matt & Joelle were only in Edinburgh for the weekend, and it was great to have them put 4 hours aside for a walk through the Pentlands - I hope they think it was worth it. I love the walk, and do it as many weekends as I can, but I realise not everyone is as crazy as I am.

The weather was glorious for the walk - we stopped for a snack lunch down near Threipmuir Reservoir, chatting away all the while. Joelle was taken by all the purple heather, whilst Matt was taking all the pictures! Be sure to check out his website at some point as I'm sure he'll have much better photos than I on there :)

Lindsey and Matt saw their first highland cows - due to the nature of the walking around the Pentlands we ended up in the paddock right next to two of them, which was great as it was the closest I've ever been too.

Due to public transport being a pain from Flotterstone (the usual start/end for people walking the Pentlands) we had to walk through to Penicuik, which I don't mind as even though it's not through the hills, it's down some lovely country roads.

We ended up home with about 15 minutes before we had to leave to go see a show at the Fringe - all quite happily exhausted, and very pleased at having spent 4 hours in the very beautiful Pentlands.