Melancholy, Beautiful, Scottish, Autumn.

Matt and I decided to go explore the coast this week. There are a handful of oceanside town to visit, with many things to see. We decided on Cramond since it promised some Roman ruins along with some good footpaths. It was only about 3-4 miles to get to the sea but when you travel on foot, it might as well be an hour drive. So for the first time, we invested in a bus ride. Well worth the 4 pounds as we were able to spend our pre-sore walking feet time seeing the sites rather than simply getting to them.

Even the ride over on top of the double decker was an event.

First stop was Cramond Kirkyard. There were some spooky cool gravestones, which help satisfy my Halloween spirit in the beautiful autumn weather.

We checked out the Roman ruin foundations on site.

After consulting the map, we were off the to the sea to take in some gloomy beauty.

Off the coast was an island that tides preventing us from getting too close to. Still, it was spiral jetty beautiful.

Very rugged

and melancholy kind of beautiful.

After sitting on a bench and throwing an entire slice of bread for the ducks to fight over, we were off to take in some more sites. After, Matt found a trail along "the River Almond" for us to trod around. It offered lots of lovely fall vignettes.

Once we made our way over to the other side of the river, we found some country roads to take a look at.

It was so surreal walking past this misty part as we could hear faint bagpipe music from the direction of these trees.

What was cool about the trip was that we didn't really have any itinerary or even idea of what to go see for the most part. There was no page in a tourbook for us to follow the recommendations. It was just Matt and Cate walking about in a place that seemed interesting. I think that would fall into the category of an adventure. No doubt this whole year is one of those but it is always nice when amid the can't understand how your boiler works/your cakes fall because your conventional oven runs on Celcius/aren't able to find that internet cafe that is listed on the map adventures, you get the pastoral/lovely adventures. Friday was one of those adventures and it was something to feel grateful for.