Other Sites (by Name)
Other sites — beautiful scenics, lochs, buildings, monuments, and weird things of interest that we ran across.
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If it’s not a pile of rocks, it goes here
Roads in Scotland
We thought that we were getting pretty good at driving in Scotland — we were staying on the left, handling roudabouts, dealing with passing places.. and then we found this one. On the map, this road is perfectly straight (you know, a lot of roads are perfectly straight on the map…). First, we started out […]
Read MoreLothian Coast
Coastal defences — huge concrete blocks — line the beaches here
Read MorePeebles Kirk
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.
Read MoreMoffat
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.
Read MoreWallace Statue
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.
Read MorePriorwood Garden
Sproingy bushes and a lovely walled garden next to Melrose Abbey
Read MoreScott’s View
The view from this hill, overlooking the Eildon Hills and Trimontium is beautiful. One of the guidebooks had an engraving of the view from the 1800s, and it is virtually unchanged from the view today, even down to the plowed field.
Read MoreWallace Monument
One of the first things that I realized about our trip to Scotland was that everything worth seeing in Scotland is UP. I spent more time climbing hills, climbing steps, climbing…and this one is 246 steps up in a tiny circular staircase on the outer wall.
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