The Scottish Korean War Memorial

To avoid the nasty weather forecast for Sunday, I went out on Saturday morning. It was quite breezy, so I headed out to West Lothian again. As I am doing the Edinburgh to St. Andrews bike ride again, I need to make sure I am fit enough post illness to do it.

I headed out to Linlithgow, then up over, what is called by local cyclists, the Bathgate Alps, before heading south towards the Pentlands, so more ups than downs. 

The route out was very much in to the wind along the cycle path network to Cramond Brig, Kirkliston, Faucheldean and the back route to Linlithgow and Dark Entry. Heading south, and very much up from Linlithgow, behind Beescraigs, is the Scottish Korean War Memorial.

The memorial is in the style of a Korean shrine. On the board in the shrine, it lists all 1114 scottish troops that died in the conflict. The fallen are also represented in the arboreteum  the 1114 native trees. And also by 110 korean fir trees on the two mounds that surround the shrine, which are in the shape of the Ying and Yang on the Korean flag, 1 tree for each 10 men who died.

From here I headed past Cairnpappel Hill, throughthe Wilderness and West Binny to Broxburn. The route was just over 84km, 52mi, with just over 980m, 3220ft, of climbing.