Stepping out of the city
We are lucky to have such corridors of nature running through Edinburgh.
I took a walk along the cycle path this morning and looked up to see the sun streaming through the leaves. The branches from both sides of the old railway path cross crossed above my head creating an archway of green. I listened to the birds and took deep breaths and for a moment I left the city.
I wasn’t on the Roseburn Path, the one which is at the centre of so much talk just now as it is in danger of being turned into a small section of the expanding tram route. But I was not far away on another part of the old railway line which ran through the north of the city linking Leith and Granton with the railway stations of the city centre.
There is a great map HERE by walker Brian Fraser which shows how you can take a 6 mile walk along the paths from Waverley station to Haymarket via Trinity and the Roseburn Path.
Living in Granton I would often cycle my commute to work, taking the path either east to Leith or west to Roseburn and on to the city centre via Haymarket. It would be such a shame if bits of these green spaces were taken away. They provide a haven for nature as well as for residents and visitors to the city, a place you can step back into the countryside.