There was an interesting article in Saturday’s Guardian about the effect that Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has had on tourism at Rosslyn Chapel – the small chapel just outside Edinburgh which has been at the centre of the UK grail-hunting industry for many years. Rosslyn seems to have become another essential stop on the standard whistle-stop tour of Scotland.
I’m still amazed at the reactions to this book. There’s nothing in it that hasn’t been in the public domain since the pubilication of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail twenty years ago. I find it hard to believe that people are so shocked by it now. I guess it just emphasises the fact that information needs to be spread through popular culture in order for it to register with most people. I expect that a whole new group will be shocked by it when the film is released next year.