Yesterday, B and I went for a walk around Cramond Brig, which is where we finished up our hike from Dalmeny last summer. The walk was in the book we've been using to find fun places to go walking around Edinburgh, and this is one that's consistently been on our option list when we decide where we want to go, but for some reason we've never done it. If I knew before how awesome it was, we would have done it much sooner! The first part went through Cammo Estate, where there are ruins of Cammo House, built in the late 17th century. 
The trail then followed the River Almond for a while, until we got to a relatively open field that the trail wraps around. The cool thing is that the trail crosses over the landing flight path for the airport (twice!) so you get to witness a whole lot of very low-flying planes making their approach to Edinburgh Airport. The runway is just over a set of train tracks so the planes are incredibly low. On the right is an Easyjet Airbus coming in for a landing. Below are some other cool snaps we got - first is a British Airways flight coming towards us. 
And here's a Ryanair flight just before touching down - you can see the start of the runway on the left.
And finally, we took a short (12 second) video of us standing right underneath a landing Easyjet Airbus. This was tremendously cool - I've never been standing directly below such a low-flying plane before. Actually, it was a bit mental.
Whoah!
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