How Sustrans thinks you get from Thorntonloch to Edinburgh

43 miles (69km)

(if James calls it 'Edinberg' in public here, I may do something nasty)

First, go back to the A road that didn't manage to get you run over yesterday; quickly take a right-hand turn, at the nuclear power station, and go straight on through the cement works. Cross the railway line, and turn right onto the A199; go past the brewery. Turn left, going under the A1; stop at Hailes Castle.



Continue on to Haddington, and join the railway path. Eventually go north, travelling at 18 mph, until you get to Longniddry Station. Look in vain for the tunnel or ramp you're expecting; unload your bike, and take everything up the stairs, over the bridge, and then down the stairs. Continue on with as little profanity as possible. Join the John Muir 'coastal path' - and then ride along the footpath next to the B1348. Eventually, get to the Firth of Forth; proceed for 5 miles. Turn right, at the bitumen plant; carry your bikes up another set of stairs and over a bridge; push them through the broken glass and empty beer cans. Immediately turn left then right, and proceed along the road approximately 150 yards from the start of the bitumen plant diversion. Ride towards the 'lagoon', which is oddly not a lagoon but a gravel truck depot. Avoid large gravel trucks.

Turn left at Musselburgh - after negotiating innumerable fishing villages; follow the River Esk, and then finally join Route 1. Follow this heavily signed route* into the centre of Edinburgh.


*NB: due to comprehensive signage of Route 1, no funds were available to adequately sign Route 76 (Dunbar-Musselburgh) as described above.