{"id":30041,"date":"2024-11-24T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2024-11-24T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:49:07","slug":"east-linton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30041","title":{"rendered":"East Linton"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_8016-scaled-e1732440599207.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30040\" \/><\/p>\n<p>East Linton is a village about 20 miles east of Edinburgh, population 2,000. For several decades, trains from Edinburgh headed toward England bypassed East Linton, because the station had been closed. A new train station opened in December 2023, and East Linton is very much on the map again.<\/p>\n<p>East Linton is my home base for this visit to Scotland. I easily got in my 10,000 steps yesterday with a walk out into the rural areas surrounding Linton, even though a storm, Bert, had brought wind and snow. After all, when you visit Scotland, the weather is a part of what you come for.<\/p>\n<p>The old stone construction in the photo is a dovecot (the Scottish call them &#8220;doocots&#8221;). They were for raising doves. To have a dovecot was a status symbol. The breakfast photo is at the Linton Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"1147\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_8020-scaled-e1732440697531.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30039\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_8021-scaled-e1732440747533.jpeg\" alt=\"\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30038\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Linton is a village about 20 miles east of Edinburgh, population 2,000. For several decades, trains from Edinburgh headed toward England bypassed East Linton, because the station had been closed. A new train station opened in December 2023, and East Linton is very much on the map again. East Linton is my home base &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=30041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;East Linton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}