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Five things to do this week
EDINBURGH FARMERS’ MARKET
The award-winning Edinburgh
Farmers’ Market is back and under new management. Located at Castle Terrace, the market features more than 30 specialist producers. Stalls include fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, along with cheese, baked goods and much more.
September 19, 9am-2pm. Free.
Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2DP
ALOUD
This newly commissioned installation at Kelvingrove Art Gallery by France-Lise McGurn is inspired by her experiences of the gallery and museum as a child and adult and was specially commissioned as part of the Director’s programme for Glasgow International festival of contemporary art. September 14-20 from 9am (always check with the venue before). Free. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3
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A PRINCE AT THE PALACE
On the September 17, 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived at the Palace of Holyrood House, setting up court for six weeks. This talk from Holyrood House tells you how Bonnie Prince Charlie used the various rooms in the palace (that you can still visit today). The talks are socially distanced and with limited capacity and not prebooked so go early to claim your spot! Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday throughout September from 11.30am. Price included with Palace ticket. The Palace of Holyrood House, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DX
VISIT BLACKNESS CASTLE
Just recently reopened, Historic Scotland’s Blackness Castle site is a must-visit.
All external spaces are now open, including the Stern Tower (up to the
Great Hall level), Stem Tower, both the West and East Wall Walks and the Spur Defence Wall Walk.
September 12-30, 10am-4pm (last entry 3.30pm). Free for Historic Scotland members (must be booked in advance). Blackness, Linlithgow, West Lothian, EH49 7NH
EATFILM
EatFilm returns to Sloans but with social distancing. Enjoy a main course, dessert, drink and a feel-good classic movie all for £20 per person! This weekend’s movie is Dirty Dancing.
September 15, 6pm-9.30pm, £20 per person. Sloans Bar and Restaurant, 62 Argyll Arcade, Glasgow, G2 8BG
the mountain this craggy niche is even more impressive.
The climb up to the hill’s south-east ridge is fairly steep, but there are no crags to bar the way, although the ground does become rockier further to the right. From the top of the falls to the summit I lost myself in a dwam of thoughts about Robert Service, his experiences in the Yukon, his poems about the First World War (in which he served as a stretcher bearer) and his later years in Brittany in France, where he died in 1958. He had a fascinating life and even played himself in a film alongside Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. By the time I recalled the first few verses of The Cremation of Sam McGee I had reached the windy summit cairn.
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.”
ROUTE PLANNER
Map: OS Landranger sheet 50 (Glen Orchy & Glen Etive)
Distance: About 8 miles/13km
Approx Time: 5-7 hours
Start/Finish: Car park at
Tyndrum Lower railway station
(GR: NN327303)
Route: Follow the forestry track behind the station out of the trees to the junction with the Cononish track. Follow track towards Cononish
Farm and just before the farmhouse TR onto a track that climbs towards the gold-mining works. Avoiding the main buildings, climb steeply to the right of the Eas Anie waterfall, keeping well away from the crags, to reach the broad SE ridge of
Beinn Chuirn. Follow ridge to the top of the summit crags, bear left and continue to the summit cairn. Return by the same route to the top of the Eas Anie falls. Instead of descending to the gold mine continue S down easy grassy slopes to reach a track that runs back to Cononish and the junction with the Tyndrum track.