West Lothian's Blue Lagoon

There's always something interesting virtually on your doorstep....

Out into darkest West Lothian for a wander past Torwood Castle, meeting the slightly eccentric custodian, who showed us what he assured us was a Roman well on the site, and tales of restoring it... On his own. Moving on to the 'Blue Pool'.... Thought to be a former air shaft for a mine, the water that has flooded into it taking on a weird blue hue. Seems a chap a number of years ago was trying to research just what it actually was (weirdly, the air shaft is only a theory, no-one 'actually' knows), but he died before finding out the detail (or before releasing it...).

Onward to Tappoch Broch (in the extras), a remarkably intact lowest level of what was a seemingly huge broch - this size and amount remaining being really unusual. The sense of history much like that I get walking round stone circles. Something ancient, hands from years ago on those same rocks.

Back in the car, and more recent history, at Scotland's Korean War Memorial (also in the extras) near Torphicen. Over 1,000 Scottish servicemen lost their lives in the Korean War. So soon after World War 2. We never learn from history...