Promenade In Prestonpans

Astute readers of this blog will recall that the plan for our 2019 European campaign was to finish up in Edinburgh, renting an apartment and enjoying almost two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. This necessitated finding a place to store Le Duc for the fall and winter and also getting our little traveling home packed up and ready to store. Having made the storage arrangements weeks before, we decided to spend a couple days cleaning and packing at a campground outside Edinburgh. But first we stopped, within striking distance of all, at Prestonpans, on the coast, east of the Festival City, for a final relaxing night in the camper. Prestonpans--so-called for the salt panning that started there in the 12th century--has a free seaside car-park open to motor-homes and a long coastal walk that we followed after dinner.

On the walk; the white thing in the center is the camper car-park

Thus, right

It's not a swimming beach, actually

Interestingly, as you can see, it's more of a low-tide trail

John Muir was born not far from here, and the Scots are rightfully proud; there's
a John Muir National Park not far away; we'll be in Yosemite in mid-August

Other interesting murals

Historically significant pubs, too

See below

The Scottish diaspora went pretty much everywhere, not
least, British Columbia, from whence this tribute to
Prestonpan's 1000 year anniversary came

No window on the world

Welcome splash of color

Back on the main street, things begin to get weird: not only does this appear to
be a funeral home in a container, but

It is associated with this supermarket

And, another block or two down, there's another...food market and funeral home

"Fred! I think we've got an eater!" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35g9ib

Not a little history here at Prestonpans

Anyhow, after two days sorting, packing, repairing, cleaning, Le Duc is parked at its
new temporary home, in storage, and we are checking into our Edinburgh apartment