Cross Keys Hotel Kelso

Arrive in Belford after a 5 hr car journey, including a beef baguette in a nice pub en-route. This is already sounding like "small earthquake in Uraguay - not many killed" Found the cottage and unloaded the car.Really nice place; Ric*********** stayed in the vilage in 1966; probably not much else happenned since then. Drove into Bamburgh and strolled along ...

... Jeannie's via Haddington for some great fish and chips!!. Wednesdday we stayin around Dunbar as the weather was miserable. We went out for dinner down in Dunbar and the weather did improve. We had a samashing meal a few drinks and then back home as it was a school night!
On Thursday we went tovist friends in Bo'ness Liz and ...

... views. Mountains have disappeared and sloping fields have taken their place. Shades of gold and brown are replacing green as hedgerows are growing heavy with rosehips. Mid August and already fall is on it’s way.

This will be our last night in Scotland. Camping tonight only a few miles from the boarder. Goodbye ...

... we decided to call up Pete and Shona and ask for help. We really didn’t want to take advantage of their kindness, but we were at a bit of a loss at the moment. Fortunately we weren’t very far away from their home.

Within minutes, Prince Charming came to rescue us rising on a white stallion (Mercedes van) to load up the bikes and whisk us off to the West Calder Bike Shop. Sheepishly, we hung our heads in shame as ...

I have been travelling the Borders Abbey way and St Cuthberts Way for a few days now. On the whole well marked footpaths, except where a farmer it would seem has taken down a sign and there was no sight of a path through his crop!!! I am now having a day off in Kelso so I can catch up on computer things. Unfortunately they wont let me plug in my computer so I cant download photos at the moment, afraid you'll have to wait for those!!! We are struggling for decent camping ...

... and I tell ya what, it did my head in a bit that the sun doesn't completely go down till around 10.30/11.00pm! Def freaked me out a little... Sunday was a lazy morning, then Cat and I headed back in to town to catch a bus to Musselbrough to watch the end of the marathon. The really cool thing about Cat's place is that when you walk out the fornt door, turn right and look up, you see Edinburgh Castle right there, I think that's cool... Very windy day, but nice and sunny. So ...

... adventure. Perhaps I was, being so random these days (wait till u hear my other stories *grin*). But I figured that I will only live once and am determined to make this life of mine happy, fun, exciting, adventurous, lively, adrenalin pumping etc etc as much as possible. Anyhow, going back to those thoughts which I had a lack of, I can say I felt quite calm and normal leading up to the day. Even getting ...

Scotland was a great place, - the best part probably being the magnificent countryside. I wasn't really playing on visiting Scotland originally, but a girl I worked with during the summer (Heather) is studying there, and a girl I work with at the hostel (Caroline) was planning on going there. The trip got off to a rocky start, you can say. I worked the night shift before we left - and got off at 8:30am. We had to catch a bus to the airport at 5pm, so ...

Well, as per usual there is not much to report from this end, as I am working some crazy hours most weeks which des not leave a great deal of time for me to get about to see and do things. But we have a few things planned for the next month or so, including my second 21st party.... Yeah I know its cheeky but my pub is giving me a bar for it so why not? Alex and myself are going to see 'Little Britain' live on stage in early November, and if you don ...

... again, too. We'll see where the Festival takes me! Oh yes, on a sidenote, I have been receiving inquiries about pictures, so here's the story. As you know, for a while I didn't have a way to charge my camera battery, so I was limited as to how much I could use my camera. That wasn't really holding me back, though, because I could have bought, in fact did buy, a disposable one. I now have an adapter so my battery is fully charged and ready to go ...