On a rainy day, OLGS, Joe High School, and I took the bus to Rosslyn Chapel. Now famous as the one of the many locations in the Dan Brown book, The Da Vinci Code, the chapel is also noted for its exuberant decoration. And it is amazing. Most European churches, abbeys, etc., have some decoration. At Rosslyn, every available space is decorated. And since Oliver Cromwell didn't make it to Rosslyn, the stuff is all there.
As a site for visitors, it's too small a space to allow for careful inspection of the carvings that made it famous. And currently, the chapel has a metal canopy over it to dry it out--500 years of Scottish weather have left their mark. It kind of lessens the exterior impact of the place, which has a car park, a gift shop, and two pubs less than 100 metres from the chapel.
A local farmer has set up an honor shop right outside the property where he peddles his notion of the Da Vinci Code--50p for Da Vinci Bullshit--bags of cow manure. And I may agree with him, but it won't stop me from seeing the movie.
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