Tom's 75th Birthday Walk in Holyrood Park

Tom celebrates his three quarters century on Sunday so he choose Edinburgh for his Birthday Walk as he was unable to attend John's one in Edinburgh in September when he was recovering from his operation. He is now back to almost full fitness and managing to do even the more difficult walks. The weather forecast last night for Edinburgh was awful and we decided to review the situation this morning at 9.00am with everybody expecting cancellation. The forecast this morning was a bit better so we decided to go for it and were very lucky with only one shower of rain during the walk and most of this was when we were walking through the Innocent Railway Tunnel. There were only 5 of us today and none of the ladies but it was an excellent walk with a nice meal at the end in The Sheep Heid Pub in Duddingston

Duddingston Loch and the starting point of our walk

Tom and Martin best pals for almost 65 years.

At the gates of Holyrood Palace just outside the Scottish Parliament. Just as I stood in the middle of the road to take this photo I was nearly knocked over by an Edinburgh Bus. 

The entrance to The Innocent Railway Tunnel.

Salisbury Crags in the background and the sun actually came out for a few minutes

Duddingston Loch from much higher up 

This is a special platform outside Duddingston Kirk to enable riders to mount heir horses.