Seventeen Strollers met up on a dry and fairly mild day to walk from Charlotte Square to Tollcross.
Meeting
in front of the West Register House which holds archive data and records for
Scotland, we then headed off down Bells Brae passing the site of what had been
the training centre for many years.
Fighting
our way through the tourists in Dean Village we made our way on to the Water of
Leith Path, watching as we walked along the path as the edge was a bit broken
away in places we passed below the first of the Modern Art galleries and then
on past the Britannia Hotel. Most of us remembered this as the Dragonara Hotel,
scene of office nights out and location for external training courses.
Passing
the Edinburgh Sports Club on the other bank we came to the Aids Memorial Park
and the first of the Anthony Gormley statues situated in the river. There are 5
more on the way to Leith. We continued up the slope into Wester Coates and
then onto the cycle path taking us to Russell Road.
We
then went onto the new path taking us back up and over the new bridges over
Dalry and then on to Dundee Street. From here we went up on to the canal path and
finished the walk at canal basin.
A
slow amble of a walk but still enough for people to have built up an appetite!
Thanks
to Drew for arranging both the walk and the reasonable weather.
