The Old Priory Bed and Breakfast 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 ...

On Saturday we had arranged to go to Marion and Keith's new home for a bbq. It took us just over the hour to get there, it is a lovley house and garden. It turned out to be a lovey sunny afternoon. We sat and ate and drank all afternoon into the evening when Keith lit the fire with logs (very cosey). Jack had a great time ...

... I’ve enjoyed our beautiful landscape of blues and greys and golds, goodbye cute little towns full of cobbles and closes, goodbye food that pushes the limits of my gag reflex, and goodbye to good friends that we’ve grown to love. I sincerely hope that we will return and glean a bit more of your richness.

... repair. We’ve been noticing over the last little while that they’ve developed slow leaks. At first I took the worst one, since I like a more deflated mattress and my body weight didn’t deflate it as quickly. But soon the other mattress was showing signs of leakage as well. They’re now both too bad and are requiring mid-night refills. Slathering the mattress in soapy water, we tried to detect where the leaks were (I ...

... private football pitch - see the photo with their home-made play house in the background. Unfortunately no photos of Edinburgh castle as we forgot to take the camera out of the car. A pity as I thought the castle was superb - we got souvenirs instead.

... be joining my flatmates as one of them is singing with a french man at one of the pubs. It'll be my first time in a pub here so now I will know what it's like to try to interpret what a drunken Scotsman is saying! Darren (the one who recently interviewed me in a phone call) laughed when he explained how difficult it is for us Noth American's when trying to understand the scottish accents with a few drinks in them. I'll let you know tomorrow!

... mountains for glorious views, one of which was Arthur's Seat (or chair. The day had started off gorgeous, a blue sky, no clouds but then halfway up a pretty decent hike we got caught in the middle of a crazy wind and rain storm. If ya look at the pics, you'll see what I mean! Thanks to my skate shoes, I got to fall down in mud, not once, not twice...but three times! This would have been alright, but I almost missed my flight from Ireland as I woke ...

... courses and I was glad to hear that apparently winter is no real barrier to play so hopefully I'll play some more in the depths of winter and into the spring. Because it looks like I'm here for a duration - at least til April and maybe a little longer. My company has sprung for a very nice 'Mews' flat in central ...

On the 15th we got up pretty early to give Paul and Kathy a goodbye. They left sadly, and we got up to switch hostel's (as 16 people in a dorm is just chaos). We stayed in the same hostel, but they owned another building across the road which we went into and it was a 4 bed Dorm. This building was actually quite a bit nicer. There we ran into a couple of girls that we met in Interlaken doing Canyoning. - Hows that for a small world. That night we went to the ...

... ever since. He taught me some moves, and I have been thinking that at some point I would like to study it. Now I am feeling even more drawn to it. Maybe at some point I will go to Brazil and learn from the source... = ) So, after all the dancing, there was an intermission, and then the second part of the show began: a drag competition! There were 3 contestants, and last night was the 3rd and final night of the competition. They each sang some songs, did some ...