At Last! An Otter!

We've spent a few days in Edinburgh and had hoped to see the family of otters in the Water of Leith.

This morning we left for home but went by way of the Colinton Tunnel. A beautifully decorated, disused rail tunnel transformed into an attraction. I'd seen a blip of it and wanted to see it for myself. It is stunning, some of it, the work of local school children.

Cleverly, through the tunnel are painted the words to Robert Louis Stephenson's poem, "From a Railway Carriage".

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, 
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; 
And charging along like troops in a battle 
All through the meadows the horses and cattle: 
All of the sights of the hill and the plain 
Fly as thick as driving rain; 
And ever again, in the wink of an eye, 
Painted stations whistle by. 
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles; 
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes; 
And here is the green for stringing the daisies! 
Here is a cart runaway in the road Lumping along with man and load; And here is a mill, and there is a river: 
Each a glimpse and gone forever! 

For those of you who didn't do it at school, you read it to the rhythm of a steam train.