Peebles Kirk

May 19, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

Peebles is a lovely town, and we stopped to wander around the little ruined churchyard and tower.

Grey Mare’s Tail

May 19, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

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.

Moffat

May 19, 1999.Reading time 2 minutes.

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.

Torthorwald Tower

May 21, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A small, crumbling tower in a farmer’s field, from the 14th century

Sanquhar

May 21, 1999.Reading time 4 minutes.

A lovely, tree-filled ruin near Sanquhar, along the Southern Upland Way

Caerlaverock

May 21, 1999.Reading time 9 minutes.

My favorite castle in Scotland — a triangular, multi-towered ruin with not one, but two moats!

Sweetheart Abbey

May 21, 1999.Reading time less than 1 minute.

If there is a more picturesque abbey in Scotland, I don’t know what it is. Sweetheart abbey is a fabulous ruin set in a grassy churchyard that is almost too green to be real

Lochmaben

June 2, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Piles of rocks, massive foundation walls, and lots of mossy grass cover this ruinedcastle built by the English in the 14th century