Having been indulged at Abi and David’s with a first rate breakfast and packed lunch, Abi drove me back to my end point at Mid Calder and I set off at 9:20. I was pleasantly surprised again by the Almondel Country Park; a substantial river and my curiosity piqued by a feeder canal which was channelled away from the river just before the impressive Camp viaduct - largely constructed to support the oil shale industry of the 19th century. Walking through largely pastoral country I reached the jaw-dropping Lin’s Mill aqueduct at 10:45. Its dizzying height above the river is enhanced by the waterfall spilling out and down from the canal - apparently this had frozen one winter and taken 2 months to thaw. I started to walk on the upstream side of the aqueduct finding that I actually had to be on the other side, going down and under the arches to come up the other side. Here I met Patrick - having spotted that I was walking LEJOG he wanted to tell me that he had cycled the Alps for Alzheimer’s...