Dry, cold wind early improving.
Early breakfast (before 7 am) at a baguette shop on the high street and on the road out of town, there was a disused railway that i could use in places (another that would be great made up as a cycle/hiking route).
Had to put waterproof on mid morning to keep wind out, (this was the lejog of headwinds). There was a beautiful ruined church on route
One bus shelter provided a welcome hide away from the wind for a pack of rest.
warmed up later when finding a tea shop at west linton,
West linton was my kind of town, just big enough to have shops and amenities but not huge and sprawling over the land scape.
On route to Carlops i had the rarer opportunity to talk to a pig, (most days involve mornin sheep and often cattle ) who are such good listeners, you can see this one was completely enthralled by the tales i had to tell.
Climbed over the pentland hills and Edinburgh came into view with mountains to the north as i dropped down towards Balerno (then things went a bit awry) the only accommodation i was offered in Balerno was a B+B at £90 (no that isn’t a typo). I kept walking and struggled a little to find the union canal as roads had been cut of by new ones altering the layout compared with my map, anyway once on the canal i kept walking until nearly dark and camped in some woodland that was nicely out of sight.
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