BEST WESTERN Philipburn Country House Hotel
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Paydirt
... a safe!
No actual safe or more importantly the contents but I'm now confident that that will come. In future all I’ll have to do is show her the safe door, issue the command 'Show me the Money!’ and wait for her to bound off in the direction of the nearest loot. I need to consult my friends Bernie and Lesley at Basset Welfare but ...
We have come to view the salmon
Who could resist a sign saying "Salmon Viewing Centre". Not me. In any case HVM had an encounter with some salmon in Berwick [ISA 12.9] and we're not planning to include this on our route as it's kind of in England.
So we trotted along the banks of the Tweed to a big weir with a special channel in the middle of it called a 'fish ladder' where each step is a pool of water slightly higher than the last allowing the salmon to leap from pool to pool in order to get ...
Spent the day in Selkirk
... about it.
The night was spent at the Scocha concert in Selkirk. They are a folk and rock styled band that are not dissimilar to Redgum in that their songs are very parochial towards their homeland (in this case, Scotland) and events (like boys going off to war etc). It was a great evening (even if we couldn’t understand much of what they were ...
Day in the 'Burgh
... football game, so we had a few beers there and watched UCONN get their butts kicked. We then headed out to George Street to get a better "view" of what the city had to offer. Le Monde proved a good shout so we stuck around there for a while before moving on. Next up was Jekyll and Hyde and shutting down that bar ended up being a good way to finish the night.
Ryan had a successful first day in Scotland.
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Slan Leat Anois Mo Stor
... to visit. Luckily enough, it was the weekend of the PAGEN FIRE FESTIVAL. Ohhhhhh, what a night (from what I remember). I took him out for a proper night on the town and by the time we got to the festival, we were feeling pretty damn good.
Here’s a funny little story about how the Scottish feel about their drinking: they did not allow glass containers into the festival, and there was a girl that had a glass bottle of whisky. The ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking
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