A lovely few days and some spectacular scenery while driving North from Brierfield in Lancashire across country to the M6 and then up the A7. No impassible floods on our route and we were north of teh bad weather once we got to Scotland.
Not a lot of walking, although I did get to walk from our rented cottage on the outskirts of Melrose to Bowden on Monday morning to collect my car.
This was my route....
...although there's an extra bit at the end when I forgot to turn my tracker off when I got to my car until I got to the junction with the road back to Melrose.
Here are a few of my photos (and a video).
We stayed at Harleyburn Saddlery in the grounds of Harleyburn Coach House. We were made very welcome by Claire and Donald and had a lovely spacious cottage dating from 1710.
We went to see Jane, and were brought back by her husband David late at night.
Sisters....
(click to play).
Yes, a few bottles got emptied. Luckily we had had young Bethany around to keep us in order as we played some boards games.
Here are a few views from my walk back the following morning.
Snow on the Lammermuir Hills.
Looking back to Melrose.
Some Galloway cattle.
Oo look. A rainbow.
I left the road at Bowden Loch....
...and came down the side of the Eildon Hills....
...passing close to St. Cuthbert's Way.
The fields towards the bottom of the hill were rather muddy, but the footpaths not too bad and there were plenty of snowdrops.
The Pant Well in Bowden. Not far to my car now.
I told you the fields were muddy,
Here are some more of my photos from around Melrose, including the whisky shop, the town square, the Abbey, some Bannock, The Doocot, The River Tweed, Drinks at the Woollen mill, and some scenes from a further short walk to Newstead and back before we left yesterday.
That was a lovely few days away and we were lucky with the weather. It hasn't been so good there for the last few days!
You can see more of my route here on map my walk and more of my photos here on Flickr.
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