There were't any retired people or baldy folk with us so it should have been alright. I was the oldest of the four of us. We went to Peebles. We walked up and down the main street for a bit. These Scottish towns all look more or less the same. Peebles. Dunbar. Musselburgh. So we walked up and down for a bit. Then we got in the motor and went to find a country walk, a marked trail. It took up through the forest. This is a man made forest and no light gets down close to the ground, and inside the forest everything is darkened and dead, the ground totally covered in dead pine needles, ochre floor. Only spiders would do well in there. And vampires. Who thought it was a good idea to lead folk along squeezed on either side by this horrorshow? Bonnie Scotland? What?
We walked up and down the street in Innerleithen as well. There are no MacDonalds in Peebles or Innerleithen. I'm a great supporter of MacDonalds and think there should be one everywhere. You could buy chips from MacDonalds. Several times we walked up and down the street in Innerleithen investigating the cafes and wee restaurants, up back alleys, up stairs, round tunnels. No MacDonald's. Damn blight on the tourist, so it is.
So I had a wee break from the tai chi, and the standing on the head, and the fantastic, fantastic amount of bliss I've been getting since the fast last week. Flatheids don't miss the bliss. Flatheids rush around all over the place. I'm always left completely frazzled by such breaks as these. But it was only two nights and the bliss when I got back ....
4 comments:
I like Jedburgh myself, there is a nice candy shop there that sells one of my favs.
Managed forests are not a bad thing, they just aren't as pretty as natural ones. Crop trees are treated differently.
Sounds like a good couple of days.
Marie! It didn't rain too much! Hotboy
What a lovely break, and an inspirational travelogue! Come independence, they might give you a job in tourist promotion. PS MacD's chips aren't Scottish.
If only you had driven a few miles further, you could have been in England where things are different. But you don't know how lucky you are - in Britain there's different scenery and accents at every turn. Hereabouts, you can drive for days and everything stays the same.
Albert? Deserts are subtle. Hotboy
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