to Dryburg

Dryburg probably has an official name of Dryburg-upon-Tweed.

The River Tweed, or Tweed Water (Scottish Gaelic: Abhainn Thuaidh, Scots: Watter o Tweid, Welsh: Tuedd), is a river 97 miles long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England.  Tweed (cloth) derives its name from its association with the River Tweed.  The Tweed is one of the great salmon rivers of Britain and the only river in England where an Environment Agency rod license is not required for angling.  Tweed is an Old Brythonic (Celtic) name meaning 'border'.

Because of the weather we took a taxi to Kelso.  In addition to a good coffee shop - Cream Chimney, filled with the locals and all of our cyclists - we visited the ruins of Kelso Abby.

One of the tombstones from the mid 1800’s had this quote:

Remember man

   As you pass by,

As you are now

   So once was I:

As I am now

   So must you be:

Prepare for death

   And follow me.

Well maybe later.

We cycled to Dryburg and the Dryburg Abby Hotel.  The Lonely Planet says this is their favorite Abby ruins but I don’t know how they made the choice since there seem to be ruins in every town.

The hotels for the last two nights, Marshall Meadows Country House in Berwick-upon-Tweed and Dryburg Abby (not in a town) were both country estates converted to hotels and were pretty nice places to stay.

Oh, someone told me we're back in Scotland.