Walking Edinburgh

Rating:
Summary: Oh, my aching feet!
Review: I was so thrilled when I found this book, as my husband and I specifically wanted to do some mapped walking around the wonderful sites in Edinburgh on our vacation the last two weeks of July. I spent hours pouring over the walks, and had a hard time selecting the 5 we would have time to take. The first, around Arthur's Seat at the top of Holyrood Park, was billed in the book as a 3 mile walk that would take about 3 hours if all places were visited. We started with great expectations and ended almost 7 hours and 10 miles later tired and frustrated (and too late for lunch in the featured pub; hours weren't mentioned in the book). The maps are very hard to follow, the markers that are supposed to be there are non-existant or nearly invisible (with no warning) for the most part, and even given our mistakes and backtracking there is no way this was a 3 mile walk. We thought *we* must have done something very wrong and set out the next day with the book for the walk through Stirling. Same experience - the half mile from Stirling center to Brannockburn Heritage Center was at least 2 miles! Gamely, but with real reservations as we began to catch on, we attempted to follow both short walks in the book down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh before giving up. But give up we did! It was probably cruel to leave it in the bookcase at the rental apartment for the next unsuspecting Endinburgh walker, but I've never been one who can just toss out any book.

Rating:
Summary: Oh, my aching feet!
Review: I was so thrilled when I found this book, as my husband and I specifically wanted to do some mapped walking around the wonderful sites in Edinburgh on our vacation the last two weeks of July. I spent hours pouring over the walks, and had a hard time selecting the 5 we would have time to take. The first, around Arthur's Seat at the top of Holyrood Park, was billed in the book as a 3 mile walk that would take about 3 hours if all places were visited. We started with great expectations and ended almost 7 hours and 10 miles later tired and frustrated (and too late for lunch in the featured pub; hours weren't mentioned in the book). The maps are very hard to follow, the markers that are supposed to be there are non-existant or nearly invisible (with no warning) for the most part, and even given our mistakes and backtracking there is no way this was a 3 mile walk. We thought *we* must have done something very wrong and set out the next day with the book for the walk through Stirling. Same experience - the half mile from Stirling center to Brannockburn Heritage Center was at least 2 miles! Gamely, but with real reservations as we began to catch on, we attempted to follow both short walks in the book down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh before giving up. But give up we did! It was probably cruel to leave it in the bookcase at the rental apartment for the next unsuspecting Endinburgh walker, but I've never been one who can just toss out any book.