The Towpath of Emptiness

It really is remarkable that, save perhaps for a kilometre or so of road between my flat in Cessnock and Kelvingrove Park, it is blissfully car-free all the way from my gaff to Edinburgh and the east coast. This is because of the wonderful green corridor that is the Firth and Forth Canal joining up at Falkirk with the Union Canal. Any city worth its salt will have several of these green corridors (ventilation shafts) coming in and out of the city. A city, let's remember, is only a city in contact and conviviality with what is not city!

Today, I'm just going as far as Kirkintilloch but I had forgotten how serene this canal is.