{"id":6099,"date":"2025-03-05T23:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2025-03-08T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:34:58","slug":"the-kelpies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"The Kelpies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m sure that the trip to the Kelpies is pretty & scenic on a good day, but it wasn’t one, so it was mostly damp but still a bit interesting in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Took the train out to Falkirk from Edinburgh Waverley, even though Google Maps really wanted to send me to Haymarket station by bus, possibly out of a desire to reduce walking? It’s Edinburgh; I’m not sure that reducing walking is a realistic goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a bus I could have taken from the station, but the weather wasn’t particularly threatening, so I walked it. It’s not the most interesting walk as you pass through the commercial bit of the town, or the housing bit, but once you pass through a light industrial section you get to the canal, which leads to the Kelpies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attempted to do some video bits, but the audio was awful – I’d probably need a proper microphone to get around that issue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obligatory landscape selfie <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They weren’t lit up during the day, but according to the postcards available there’s a Demon Horse illumination option <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted this on the way back, which I’d hoped was a magic portal to somewhere warm. Sadly, it was not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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