Aschi "Freestone"'s photos

the pilgrimage through agriculture and woodland continues on and on.

We meet quite powerful meat colossuses and a lot more sheep than humans.

It continues through pastureland and fertile land and it is still really Scottish wet weather

Maxton Church The church stands on a hill overlooking the river Tweed. It is believed that there has been a church on or near today's site for almost 1000 years. Sacred inscriptions can be seen on both the north and south walls. The HEBREW inscription on the south wall translates "Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound, Selah". 1724 :- "O come and let us worship and bow. (These are taken from Psalm 89.15 and Psalm 95.6). The Latin inscription on the north wall, above the stained glass windows, translates "Jesus is our safety". The bell bears the inscription "1609, Soli Deo Gloria Jan Burgerhuys me fecit". It was made in the well-known factory in Middleburg in Holland. There are two stained glass windows in the north wall which are believed to have been designed by James Henry Coram , a London architect.

a peaceful river, but which can also be different like in the second picture

The tweed carries a lot of water, it's full up to the edge of the shore.

on the way through the St Boswells Golf Club to the River Tweed

At the start of the second stage of our pilgrimage a pretty wet business it's gonna be today.

The Typical English Bus in the pouring rain we have reached our destination of the day the bus in Newton St.Boswells, now it goes back to the hotel to Melrose

The River Tweed is 156 kilometres long and flows through the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. It rises at Tweedsmuir and drains the entire border region. Later it forms Administrative boundary . The spring is located in the hills near Tweedsmuir. The Tweed flows into the North Sea near the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England's northernmost town, founded in 870. In the 11th century the town was a Scottish port where warships were built for kings of Scotland. In the PIP an impression of the buildings standing at the water: The Red Building is the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel is a stately country house on the banks of the River Tweed, southeast of Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The modern house was built in 1845 and converted into a hotel in 1932. It is located next to the ruins of the Dryburgh Abbey. www.dryburgh.co.uk

the path along the river Tweed

through fairytale winding paths on the way to the River Tweed

Typical houses in this region Bowden is a town in the centre of the Scottish Borders and the traditional county of Roxburghshire. Melrose and Selkirk are the next bigger towns.

look back from Bowden to the Eildon Hills

on the way to Bowden

on winding paths through pastureland and nature reserve you go down to Bowden

Panoramic view from the Eildon Hills

Panoramic view direction Melrose, Galashiels, Edinburgh