Daniel’s Blog

Some of you already know, but for those who don’t know.. I am now back from my holiday in Edinburgh.

It was a very nice holiday, we had a very relaxing time and acted quite touristy.

Places we went to see:

• St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral (A Scottish Episcopal Cathedral)
• Rosslyn Chapel (A Scottish Episcopal Parish Church, but better known globally for its supposed links to masonry popularised by books such as Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code)
• St Johns Church (A Scottish Episcopal Church in the centre of Edinburgh, it has really really lovely stained glass windows)
• St Giles Cathedral (A Church of Scotland Cathedral. The café sells good lunch for good prices)
• Freemasons’ Hall (Grand Lodge of Scotland)
• Royal Mile (from Castle to the Holyrood Abbey)

We did, of course, see Edinburgh Castle… except we didn’t go in because we didn’t see the point in paying about £25 in total to have a look inside. We really didn’t mind, we looked around the Castle Shop instead.

We didn’t take many photos, but I am sure we’ll upload them soon.

Back to home and work

During my time in Edinburgh, I didn’t check any of my emails or web feeds. This was because I just wanted to get away from it all… and I succeeded. Anyways, I checked it all this morning. 188 non-auto-archived non-spam emails (of which about 30 had some kind of interest) and 278 spam emails in my personal email box… and about 38 in my work email box (a couple of which were spam). I’ve also been trawling through the various web, semantic web, social web, artificial intelligence and other web feeds that I subscribe to. Theres a lot of stuff to catch up on, but I’m getting through it!

A note on Rosslyn Chapel

Thank’s to the trip to Edinburgh I have a *signed* copy of Robert Cooper’s “The Rosslyn Hoax?“. It is an awesome book, written to bust all the myths about Scottish Freemasonry, Knights Templar and their (often suggested) relationship with Rosslyn Chapel, the Kirkwall Scroll and the Sinclair family. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in the subject!