went into the cathedral. 

The cathedral must have a preschool, saw children playing on the lawn. The cathedral complex covered the whole block.

Again, the outside. Had to rush through, about to close. This one has an installation of artist’s shopping lists, her own and others, hanging in chronological order from string around…

Couldn’t take photos inside but here’s the outside. Special exhibit “True to Life” British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s,  gathered from collections in Scotland, Ireland and London museums,…

We stayed in a converted garage for 2 nights, very modern with bedroom, bath downstairs and living space, kitchen up.  From there an easy walk to the National Gallery of…

would have been open space with gardens, medicinal and food plants. Cloister not intact, might have looked like one at Abbey in Iona, which has been rebuilt.

include graves of members of the community., most probably abbots. The remains were exhumed and re-buried here. 

became a burial place for the Ker family, ancestors of the present owners, the marquises of Lothian. This tomb was particularly evocative.