Scotland / Schottland

a face, from some movie, like Lord of the Rings.......... or does anyone have an idea...??

Bridge over Bowmont Water to Yetholm

Our next stop Yetholm Youth Hostel Yetholm is actually a twin village of Town Yetholm and Kirk Yetholm. Both villages are very unusual in Scotland as they have a number of thatched huts and houses. The name Yetholm means "gate town", and the villages were described as frontline during the various wars between England and Scotland. The cross-border turbulence meant that permanent settlement in Yetholm could not have begun until the end of the 19th century. However, the area had long been home to the Jetholm gypsies.

the Bowmont Water valley towards Yetholm Mains and Shotton which is already in UK PiP: in the picture in the middle you can see the Pennine Way which we crossed here. Pennine Way , Great Britain's first and most famous National Trail , along the Pennines , over limestone paving, peat bogs and glaciated abysses. These wild landscapes make the Pennine Way one of the country's most challenging long-distance hiking trails.

you can meet such works of art again and again there are some farmers here who are active as nature artists.

View back to Yetholm

before it goes up now still one more Idilisches water, where it almost got wet feet!!

fern as far as the eye can see and right in the middle of it we hikers PiP: But today we weren't there alone. The two of them kept us company for a while and sounded us with their Määäääää, Määäääää :-)))

part of today's stage would be done here at the border. luckily there are no controls. from scotland and now simply further in England. The two ladies are happy that we have reached this point!

Somewhere at the far end of the horizon is our destination Holy Island in the North Sea, it is still a piece of way in front of us

once again we fight our way through these enormous fern fields

Panorama seen from the Scottish-English border

the stone man shows us where the path continues here PiP: lightning man

straight ahead through a dark, mystical, fairytale-like forest, which stimulated our fantasies:-))

almost a little relieved we now have daylight again and are rewarded here with a wonderful view. PiP: As you can see here, it has already rained a lot and the creek shore a little bit taken away

Hethpool here in the area one could encounter the wild Cheviot Goats. The wild goat herds in the Cheviots are, original landrace goats. Unfortunately we did not see any.

we are on our way to the Cheviot Hills which still need to be crossed PiP: on the way to the highest point

The Cheviot Hills consist of a series of hills located on the English-Scottish border of Northumberland and Scottish Borders. The hills are part of the southern highlands, because the Pennine Way runs through the region, they are considered part of the northern Pennines. The Cheviot Hills were formed in geological activity about 480 to 360 million years ago. In the southern part of Cheviots is the Otterburn Training Area of the British Army, where about 30,000 soldiers are trained annually. PiP: Panorama of this plateau on the Cheviots