People go to Scotland for a variety of worthy reasons. Some go to play golf. Some go to drink good whisky. We met one young lady from Pennsylvania who went to Edinburgh to work on a master's degree in photography. But a lot of people, like us, go to see the historic castles, churches, and ruins that dot the countryside. These photos were taken at Jedburgh Abbey. (Click to enlarge.)
Note the ledge and crossbar above the door in the background, below the lower of the two windows. That's where Laurel was standing in this picture.
To get there, we had to go up and down these stairs. Note the toe of my shoe, bracing me against the wall to take this picture, which gives you some idea of the small size of these steps. No room for fatties, here. The spiral staircases are as amazing as the ornate stonework in the rest of the building. The steps had to be cut identically to fit the staircase. The inside corners of the steps stack on top of each other, forming a column, and the outer edges are anchored in the wall. That's a rope going around the column, our "handrail."
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