Bay Waverley Castle Hotel
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Phase 14 Day 2
... to achieve as much as possible after suffering a stroke 18 months ago. I really admire his courage and positive attitude. The Roadie drove one car back to Melrose so it was logistically in the right place to transfer people later on and was going to walk back in to meet us. He also linked up with Ron who had been driven across by a friend to await the AA after his car failed to start last night. Hope the wait was not too long for them to turn up. The rest of us ...
Boggling
... right (north) towards Melrose. In about 400 yards we found the reason why there's no sign of the road in Melrose. Sometime between 2008 and now it's been closed and is now only passable on a bike or on foot.
Installing Beddie on the verge I assembled the hounds and set off. Round a bend, down a slight hill and there as the road leveled out was the Burn, boggling away just as HVM had described it.
It trickled through overgrown ...
Last Day There August 12th
... venue at “The Jury” cost him 1250 pounds for three week booking.
I ended my time at the Fringe with a musicalJ “Reel to Real” was a fun exploration (with a very thin plot) of a number of old Broadway musical song and dance numbers that were also made into film and have in this production been brought back to the stage. The cast was very good (singers/dancers) but the production values were amazing. It was a brilliant exhibition of the use ...
Day 38 - accompanied by a bad smell!!
... Road, had been in use for hundreds of years. This was the main route across southern Scotland back in the 1200,s and Edward 1 had travelled across it when invading the northern kingdom he tried so ***********quer. At a more frivilous level, Sir Walter Scott's mother spoke of travelling this road in a coach and six, with several footmen to regularly lift the coach free of gorse and heather, to go to an evenings ball in Peebles. From ...
Monks a-plenty... but strange goings on...
... the amount of time they spent sitting around thinking. St Benedict had said that a monk should have two robes, and two tunics, to allow for the washing of garments and for nightwear, and any more than this was too much and should be taken away.
However, St Benedict lived in Italy, not in Scotland in winter… But none the less, the Cistercians took his instructions literally, and went about in sub-zero temperatures in nothing more than a ...
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