Intro:
This year's micro adventure, which starts and finished from my home in Peebles would be firstly to Wooler in Northumberland, then onto Berwick upon Tweed and back to Peebles. I wouldn't be on my own this year as Gillian fancied getting in on the action and will be joining me !!
Day 1 Easter Sunday, From Peebles to Wooler.
We left Peebles around 10am the sun was out as it was "warming" up a bit.
We cycled along the familiar cycle path through Cardrona, Innerleithen and Walkerburn. We did bump into a local legend out for an ebike ride.
We then joined the back road to Peel , Yair and up over the hill to Boleside.
It's a lovely little cycleway through Boleside to Gala
We followed the cycle path that follows the railway line to our first stop at the Tempest Brewery.
Then we heading through Melrose and a few hills through Eildons down to our lunch stop at Main street book shop cafe in St Boswells.
Leaving St Boswells the sun was shining and starting to get warm. We followed some lovely quiet farm roads through Makerstoun, past Floors castle and down into Kelso. It was nice and chilled in the town square, so we had another stop and enjoyed a Gregg's and sat in the square.
Looking back towards the Eildon hills
From Kelso we had a long climb up towards Yetholm, we turned off and followed more quiet roads toward the Cheviot hills through Kirknewton and finally made it to Wooler , 60 miles and 6 hours later.
Ad Gefrin, Kirknewton ancient home of the Northumberland kings.
We stayed in the Wooler hostel, which is really nice. The hosts are very welcoming and the hostel used to be a site from the Land army during the war and has lots of information about the area.
We were very tired so re-hydrated our dehydrated meals, drank a glass of wine and retired to our comfy beds.
Total distance : 58.88 miles
