Travelogue: Day 5
The stunning Tweed Valley today, with rolling hills, farming towns and lots and lots of sheep
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Venlaw
A comfortable country-house hotel, in the restored mansion of Smithfield Castle.
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Just another crumbling tower-house in a field somewhere. A pretty pile of rocks.
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A lone pile of rocks in the middle of a sheep pasture, this is either Easter or Wester Happrew….
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Peebles is a lovely town, and we stopped to wander around the little ruined churchyard and tower.
Read MoreGrey Mare’s Tail
We spent nearly a whole day driving around in the Tweed Valley, avoiding sheep. The weather was beautiful, and we stopped to hike up the hill to see the Grey Mare’s Tail, a tall, narrow waterfall that plunges 200 feet down the valley.
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Moffat is a very nice little town that is well known for it’s woollen mills — a tourist attraction that warrants a humungous parking lot for tour busses.
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A beautiful, picturesque tower overlooking the River Tweed
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Roaming around the scottish Borders and making the rounds of the spectacular Border Abbeys.
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We had a very leisurely walk through a very thick forest path to find this enormous statue of William Wallace. He looks like a Roman soldier — and is overlooking Trimontium and the Eildon Hills, facing England; watching for the next invasion, according to the people sitting beneath it.
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