We decided to spend Autumn Holiday (a Scotish invention) at Rosslyn Chapel, famous amongst many for being one of the North's most intricate chapels and for the other less historically aware (like us) for being the mysterious hiding place of the Holy Grail in the final chapters of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code".
We were vaguely disappointed that the chapel was hiding under a massive plastic roof and the ceilings were shielded from view by construction works, especially considering the entrance fee of £7.50, but nevertheless, it was spectecular, and the renovations are needed to preserve the chapel for the future.
On the bright side, we were allowed to climb the scaffolding and have an up close look of the roof and spires! The interior is covered by carvings with astonishing detail. Interestingly, there are carvings of corn cobs that predate the discovery of America, where corn was supposedly discoverd first. Cees-Jan was very excited to see that curly kale ('boerenkool') was already on the menu over five centuries ago!
We decided to spend Autumn Holiday (a Scotish invention) at Rosslyn Chapel, famous amongst many for being one of the North's most intricate chapels and for the other less historically aware (like us) for being the mysterious hiding place of the Holy Grail in the final chapters of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code".
Off to the Botanical Gardens today. Since we failed to go to the ones in Oxford in all those years we thought we avoid that embarrassment and get to it right away. We were not disappointed! The gardens are spectacular and to our surprise entrance was free!
village is popular with families and dog walkers. You can go along the water front or up the little creek called 'Almond' which has a few small waterfall and nice rock exposures a little bit upstream. There's also a nice local pub where Cees-Jan got his first pint of beer in the UK for under two quid!
