Holyrood park streches itself around the edge of Edinburgh's Salisbury Crag and Arthur's Seat to the east of the centre of the city. Edinburgh is a notoriously hilly town, built and rebult over a very long time and Holyrood park is a part of that process and of the city as important as any of the buildings. The 'crags' dominate the skyline of this architecturally rich and bewildiering city snaking up and under steep hills. The park itself stretches little beyond the crags at many points until it opens up arounf Holyrood Park palace. As a city park that part of it is unexceptional yet still rewarding. Less crowded than The Meadows in the heart of the city that part of the park is mostly simple mown lawns running up to the Palace behind the redeveloped Holyrood road which now has the Scottish parliament, Dynamic Earth Exhibit and other new sites changing the area and making it safer. While the flat parkland is unexceptional the size and scale of the crags is something which really provides a feeling of Edinburgh. To a nonlocals mind the place really should be in an American desert or Cape Town. The vertical drops while navigable around provide an incredible opportunity to look out over the historic city in all directions and beyond to the Firth of Forth, an incredible view. While the feeling of nature is unmistakable these crags are very much part of the city. From the joggers running through them, the students lounging around in the summer to the ruins of a destroyed part of the city which on the north side to which has been reclaimed by nature. Holyrood Park is definitrly worth a visit but it you are there in winter you might want to reconsider, the ever present wind is not refreshing but often torturous and the quickly fading light can leave you in an uncomfortable, dangerous position from others and the potential falls.
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Jun 23rd, 2000
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