Aschi "Freestone"'s photos

this distance and remoteness fascinates me every day from anew

a quite strenuous ascent The grazing cattle didn't care!!

how many bridges do you want to cross ??? here it has just one and afterwards it goes again by grass and pasture land

through woods like in a fairy tale it goes quite well today once without rain

Looking back in the background you can see the Peniel Heugh officially called the Waterloo Monument. PIP, sometimes you have the feeling that the farmers are artists too, who you see the landscape paintings.

at the river Jed Water it goes today again a little further

Canongate Bridge The Canongate Bridge is a former road bridge in the small Scottish town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. Today it is only used by pedestrians. The building has been on the Scottish List of Monuments since 1971.

Canongate Bridge The Canongate Bridge is a former road bridge in the small Scottish town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. Today it is only used by pedestrians. The building has been on the Scottish List of Monuments since 1971.

Jedburgh, is a town in the Scottish Borders and was formerly a Royal Burgh, town with royal status Royal Charter. Jedburgh lies on Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, not far from the Scottish-English border. The ruins of the Augustinian monastery Jedburgh Abbey and the former fortress Jedburgh Castle dominate the cityscape. The city has no railway connection, but is integrated into the British motorway network.

Jedburgh Abbey is the ruin of an Augustinian monastery. King David I founded this monastery in 1138. Nine years later it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and destroyed nine times during the following centuries. The monks built it meticulously and carefully over and over again. In the best time Jedburgh Abbey was subordinated to the royal castle of Jedburgh and in 1285 Alexander III married his wife Yolande here. Legend has it that before the wedding day he had a ghostly apparition announcing the imminent death of the king. It soon came to pass, because the following year Alexander lost his life after falling from his horse. The abbey is the best preserved of its kind in the Borders. It is considered a prime example of Romanesque religious architecture in Scotland.

This shop has almost everything you need.

still a piece almost like jungle before we soon reach our day's destination

what also fascinates me are the many pasture walls erected in thousands of working hours. The inhabitants within these walls can be seen in the PIP

many enormous cornfields, here in the middle there is a water reservoir to irrigate the fields

It continues over land past the Waterloo Monument. The Waterloo Monument near Ancrum is a 150-foot high tower built between 1817 and 1824 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. It was designed by architect Archibald Elliot after the original monument of William Burn collapsed. PiP I am always fascinated by the natural wood sculptures that we encounter along the way, which always stimulate our imagination anew.

The legend says that here was a roman splendour avenue and at the end a tree sculpture was waiting for us which stimulates the thoughts of the people.

through overwhelming scenery we move forward at the roadside tree figures which stimulate the spirit.

THE LEGEND OF LILLIARD The legend of the beautiful virgin Lilliard is known at the borders . She was a Maxton girl who followed her lover into the Battle of Ancrum Moor. He was killed by the English as she took his sword and fought against the English. Heavily wounded, she fought on until her death. The beautiful virgin Lilliard lies buried under these stones. She was small in stature, but great was her fame. The grave is only a few steps away from the St. Cuthberts Way (St. Boswells to Jedburgh).