The train ride that takes you from Kings Cross to Edinburgh is absolutely lovely (provided you’re not sitting next to a screaming child, which I wasn’t, phew!) I took this train over twenty years ago (twenty! yes, scary thought!) and still after all those years, remembered spending the four + hours with my nose pressed against the glass.
This summer I was lucky to be going even “farther up and further in” on my trip up to Scotland. The train that leaves the Edinburgh Haymarket station takes you out of the city, up into the wild remote Scottish Highlands and beyond!
My friend Heather grew up in the Orkney Islands. This summer I had the pleasure of visiting her in her hometown of Stromness. I walked, took the tube, a train, a taxi, a ferry and even a plane to get there and back. It felt like going to the end of the world, but the warm welcome I received and the many beautiful things I saw over the four days I was there made the long trek so very worth it. (Plus the trip was half the adventure!)
Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, To find all you seek, There is the utter East. North.
