A GUIDE TO THE SCOTTISH BORDERS - Four years ago we left Trinidad in the warm Caribbean, and migrated to Scotland to the Border area of Eildon, Walter Scott (of Ivanhoe and Rob Roy fame) lived here. Its a beautiful area, varying from soft rolling hills with hidden valleys, to rough moorland high up and bleak. Its quiet and calm here and we love it. This blog will be my diary of our adventures and our recommendations of places to visit and eat and explore.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Selkirk
Sir Walter Scott was the sheriff here. Nice old town but split up a bit by the main road running through. Statue to Mungo park the great (and forgotten) explorer who lived here. Good deli and pub, not much else. Highlight is probably the Baxters shop on the way out of town towards Galashiels. Awful fish and chips. Well worth a visit as its perhaps one of the few places to see the whole wonderful Baxters range. They sell good bread too, but again (like Kelso) don't cut it for you. Free soup tasting daily, like that. But they have unusual things and we always end up buying stuff.
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