Today, we headed out early to Edinburgh's Waverley station to catch a train to Falkirk. We were a bit overwhelmed by the size of Waverley, which seemed even bigger than Paddington.
Falkirk's main claim to fame is the Falkirk Wheel, the world's only rotating boat lift, which allows boats to move between the Union Canal to the Forth and Clyde Canal, 35 meters below. We bought tickets for a canal boat ride which took our boat up on the wheel and then on a short trip along the Union canal, through a tunnel that goes under the Roman structure of the Antonine wall and then back again.
We had a nice lunch in the Falkirk Wheel visitor centre before heading over to Falkirk's second best known attraction: the massive sculpture known as The Kelpies. The sculpture celebrates the role of the horse in pulling the barges on the canals.
Took the train back to a rather cold Edinburgh and now we're staying in for the night and trying to warm up.
You can go inside these, can't you? I'm sure I saw Susan Calman doing it.
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