Robert Burns is Scotlands national poet and a cultural icon. He wrote the Birks of Aberfeldy in 1787 to an existing melody. He was inspired to write it visiting the birks (birches) at Aberfeldy and the waterfalls at Mooness. A statue of him, looking out among the trees towards the river and rapids and writing his famous poem, was raised at the glen, and I joined him on the bench.
