On Location

On this Labor Day I'll continue my past few days track record of doing pretty much nothing, which is all I've felt like doing. But I have been able to read and watch movies, especially one film I'd been thinking about while we were in Edinburgh — "Chariots of Fire," which won the Academy Award for best picture in 1981 and is a favorite of mine.

I learned that many of the scenes were shot in Edinburgh locales, including an old church (are there any other kind there?), an elegant eatery, and up in the Salisbury Crags near Arthur's Seat. 

It was doubly fun to watch the movie realizing that I was right there only a few days ago. Kinda dorky, I know. But entertaining, just the same. 

(For "Chariots of Fire" fans, Harold and Sybil enter Cafe Royal through the revolving door that's in the foreground while a band strikes up "Three Little Maids From School.")