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Today we headed out on a relatively easy circular walk in the Pentlands, starting at Nine Mile Burn and heading up over Monks Rigg (about 4 miles in total). Although it was breezy the sun was out so we took…

Just a bit of an update since being back in Edinburgh! On 25th Jan we headed Westwards to Ayr to visit Robert Burns’ birthplace (coinciding with his birthday)..the National Trust have built a Museum in the small village where you…

We haven’t posted anything for quite a while so thought I’d upload the photos of a walk we did on Friday around Dalkeith Country Park. Dalkeith is a small town about 8 miles south-east of Edinburgh that we’ve visited a…

Heading in to soak up the Fringe Festival atmosphere had been on our to-do list all month and we finally got round to it on Friday! We were fortunate enough to be given 2 free tickets to watch a guy…

After last month’s trip down to Peebles we were keen to return and take a bit more time to explore the town…so we found a nice looped walk that took us through the main street and then (in the opposite…

For a refreshing start to the week we headed out into the Pentlands for a walk, starting at Flotterstone and tackling a few hills we hadn’t yet walked. It was a lovely, invigorating walk that took us up and along…

Taking advantage of a nice warm day we got our shorts on and headed to the town of Peebles for a lovely walk. We parked in the town and walked up out of the town and on to the Cademuir…

The last couple of weeks have mainly been taken up with visiting local farm shops, baking and cooking new recipes and eating! It’s been fun…so I thought I’d upload a few photos of our concoctions to remind us in case…

We took advantage of the sun being out today and headed into the Pentlands for a 7.25 mile walk up the hills. Starting from Threipmuir we walked up over West Kip, East Kip and then over Scald Law which is…