A couple of weekends ago Jack and I went to Peebles to meet up with Evee of Evee’s Blog who lives in Peebles and also to have a mooch around the annual Peebles Peace Group booksale. The photo below is me on the right looking fat in my raincoat, it had been bucketing with rain all the way until we got to Peebles. I don’t think I’m that hefty, it was the bulky jumper I was wearing underneath which did it – honest! Evee is on the left of course and is looking svelte due to the paleo diet which she is having great success with.
We started to walk along the banks of the River Tweed, at this point the pathway is wide and flat as you can see but it isn’t long before you have to scramble over tree roots and go up and down close to the banks of the river and it got muddier and muddier as we walked along.
The photo above is of the bridge at Peebles town and we walked over that to get to the riverside path.
The photo below is the view looking back in the direction of Peebles.
It doesn’t give any impression of the speed of the river which was really fast and fierce. We probably wouldn’t have gone on the walk at all if we had realised how windy it was. Due to a combination of the wrong footwear, mud and a howling gale, poor Evee came a cropper three times, the third time she had an alarming close encounter with her camera as she fell. Worryingly she was bleeding quite badly from a cut above her eye where her camera caught her. Even worse than that though was the news a few days later that she had cracked a few ribs too! It could have been disastrous though as at the time Evee and I were both worried about being blown into the River Tweed as we were so close to the banks and the wind was so strong. I had a vision of us both being human Poohsticks and Jack hanging over the bridge to see which one of us passed under it first – drowned of course.
Neidpath Castle loomed up through the trees, annoyingly this one isn’t open to the public although you can hire it for your wedding if you are that way inclined. You can see more images of it here.
And below is a much closer photo. That chunk of stonework in the foreground seems to match the bite which is missing from the castle wall at the top.
The photo below is of Jack and Evee, taken before Evee had her accident. Although Evee and I had met up before in Edinburgh this was a first meeting for Jack and Evee. Evee and I only got to know each other through blogging which has turned out to be a great way of meeting friends whether in reality or just online.
Amazingly in early May fellow blogger Peggy Ann of Peggy Ann’s Post is coming to Scotland all the way from Pennsylvania to visit us for a month, she’ll be seeing various internet friends while she’s here, as well as Evee and myself, the four of us are going up to the Highlands for a few days. Fingers crossed for good weather! All because of the internet. Peggy Ann has always wanted to visit Scotland so she’s just about off the scale with excitement about the whole thing. I’m still biding my time before crossing to the other side of that pond, waiting for that ‘Beam me up Scotty’ gadget.