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Despite the summer weather not
materializing, we took off for four nights in Jedburgh and 3 in
Edinburgh. Our main reason for visiting Scotland was to attend the
Edinburgh Tattoo, tickets received at Christmas, a present from
John, my son.
It took just over 4 hours to get to
Jedburgh with sunshine and showers and queues on the A1
Good campsite, a Camping & Caravan
Club site, we walked into Jedburgh around tea time and saw the sites
of the Abbey, Castle and Queen Mary of Scots house, very pretty and
interesting.
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Jedburgh Abbey 
Our first day's hike and we headed east
towards the hills, only to find rain, so we drove north to Kelso
where the sun shone and walked round the sites of the town then did a
6 mile hike along the River Teviot over the viaduct at Roxburgh and
back along the old railway track. It didn't start raining till we
were half way round, a good walk.
 Kelso Abbey  
Floors Castle Kelso
    Viaduct we eventually walked over with view from top 
Day two dawned brighter and sunnier! We
set off to do the hike we were supposed to do yesterday but as clouds
gathered we cut it short but had a super walk among heather strewn
hills. Grouse, goats, sheep and cows were pretty but don't make the
grade compared to bears, moose, elk and bison! Ah America I miss you.
Having said that we are really enjoying seeing our beautiful country.
  
"Lost" in the bracken
        
Last day in Jedburgh, we drove to
Hawick then south to do a walk Roy had worked out from OS map. Well
if I say it was not his finest hour, you get the picture. Path was
fine at first then we found ourselves at the edge of a forest that
should have a path so we struggled on, after I'd cut myself on some
barbed wire only to turn round, clamber over a fence and plough our
way across a boggy heather slope. Finally down to a proper path and
back to the car for our picnic! No photos but it didn't rain!
We moved up to Roslin near Edinburgh for 3 nights, our campsite was next door to Rosslyn Chapel, built in 1446 and we listened to an interesting talk about its history, its fabulous carvings in sandstone and its links with "The Da Vinci Code" book by Dan Brown. Enjoyed looking round the chapel so much to see but they didn't allow photos inside.
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