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Up to Calton Hill with Robert Louis Stevenson !

Calton Hill stairs 2007

The east of new Edinburgh is guarded by a craggy hill, of no great elevation which the town embraces (…)You mount by stairs in a cutting of the rock to find yourself in a field of monuments. (Robert Louis Stevenson – Edinburgh Picturesque Notes – 1878 )

I’m coming […]

Hall of Scottish Heroes – Wallace National Monument

The National Wallace Memorial Tower

Wow….Mairiuna…it was worth the wait ! 🙂 That sword is indeed very impressive…I would not have liked to be pierced through by it…yikes!

Not less impressive is Wallace Monument. You can see it from far afield, standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, when you visit the region. […]