The weekend before last, Alette, Japhur and I took a short vacation to the Scottish Borders. The map below shows our route, and you can click on the above picture to see our photos.View Larger Map
One of the highlights was the town of Peebles which is an attractive, historic town. We had lunch there, in what' s now becoming frequent pub visits for Japhur. On Saturday evening, we dipped down into Northumberland, England and stayed at the Coach House Hotel in Crookham. It was very quiet and relaxing with some great views of rolling hills just outside our window. Japhur much preferred this B and B to the less posh pub we stayed at Friday night.
We spent the early part of Sunday on windswept Holy Island (Lindisfarne), which offered some wonderful views of a hill-top castle, surrounded by the sea.
The one disappointment of the trip was Berwick-upon-Tweed; a lovely sounding place, that was quite pretty, but only from far away. Once we arrived in the centre of town, not much was open and there didn't seem to be a decent pub or restaurant for lunch. It did have a nice grassy walk around town, atop the former walls of the city, but that was it. We wished that we'd stayed in Lindisfarne for lunch.
We took the scenic drive home along the coast, stopping in St. Abbs to snap the photo seen above. We think this might be the diving mecca that Tanya and Pat mentioned to us before we left. There was basically nothing in St. Abbs but divers and diver-related establishments.
Other highlights en-route included:
Kailzie Gardens
Traquair House, the "oldest inhabited castle in Scotland", sporting at still-functioning brewery
Priorwood Garden in Melrose
Too many ruined abbeys to name
Forest walks at Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre
St. Aidan's winery
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