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 […]
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Coastal defences — huge concrete blocks — line the beaches here
Read MorePeebles is a lovely town, and we stopped to wander around the little ruined churchyard and tower.
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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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Sproingy bushes and a lovely walled garden next to Melrose Abbey
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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.
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Famous for the shy Loch Ness monster, Nessie, Loch Ness is a the second largest loch (by size), but it is the deepest loch in Scotland.
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It was incredibly windy when we stopped to take pictures at this tiny port (lost again, I think!) and we tried for about ten minutes to get a picture of the waves crashing over the stone walls
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Stirling is a wonderful town and we spend the morning wandering along the Castle Wynd and enjoying the monuments and historic buildings
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