Day 11/13 Innerleithen Norham – 4K

We set out on a 13 day, 600 mile cycle adventure in late September 2022. Our route started on the east coast or Northumberland at Cambois, where we travelled along national cycle routes 10 & 72 to Hexham on the first day. Subsequent days took us further west to Carlisle and then into Scotland, traveling west along the Solway coastline. Then turning towards Ayr via the long slow climbs of Galloway and Maybole before arriving in Ayr. Heading inland towards Glasgow, the Kelpies and Edinburgh. Striking south from Edinburgh to Innerleithen and back to the English border town of Norham. Then onto our final stages of Seahouses on the Northumbrian east coast and Cambois.
Our final destination.

Innerleithen
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/innerleithen-p242361

Melrose
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/melrose-p242311

Kelso
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/kelso-p242351

Norham
https://www.norhamlife.co.uk/visit

Norham Bike Yard
https://www.facebook.com/100067596707334/about/?paipv=0&eav=AfYEuZMOPkKvi7K-Hw2itWYpJ1tge_yS3vaNlhMQJwR3fdEcUaHZnR1Bpu5khAVaUaI&_rdr

Cafe U
https://www.facebook.com/cafe.u.kelso/

Coast and Castles South cycle route
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-other-routes/coast-and-castles-south-newcastle-to-edinburgh

Sustrans
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/national-cycle-network-routes-in-south-west-scotland

OS Map
https://explore.osmaps.com/?lat=55.363050&lon=-2.451490&zoom=8.0000&style=Standard&type=2d&overlays=os-ncn-layer

00:00 – Innerleithen
00:45 – River Tweed
03:09 – Thornielee Railway Station
06:29 – Melrose
09:12 – Dryburgh Abbey Bridge
10:43 – Kelso
13:05 – Eccles
15:46 – Scottish – English border
16:28 – Norham
16:46 – Statistics
17:01 – Map
19:16 – Next

[Music] [Music] [Music] this hustle and bustle of school traffic for that time of the morning and we’re following the river Tweed it’s wet but it’s beautiful morning [Music] [Music] the Tweed Valley is absolutely beautiful we were just saying how we felt the rain that he enhanced it really being the greens for line I just hope that the camera isn’t nothing better Thug don’t know if that’s made it better of us there how we find out the main road through the valley is down on our left we’ve been taken up the slopes of the Hill amongst the Woodland which is so much prettier but you probably hear the traffic and the just there we’ve got a very good view of the traffic at the moment we just spotted the old train station down in the valley they have actually reinstated one further east of here about 9 miles into our ride so far from middle e so I’d have to see if I can find out what the name of the little place is it’s not that long ago that they reinstated a railway station at tweet Bank further along the line from here and it’s already very popular with cyclist exploring the area or coming to the area so we could have taken the roadway and we could have taken the truway this looked far more inviting so taking the trackway hi now this is fun plus you now we’ve got a little bit of downhill definitely hard of work going up it cly with load whoops loaded bikes [Music] H coming [Music] [Music] [Music] we’re at Melrose and we’ve just come into the harmony garden and uh it’s actually very entry there’s a donation box at the gate lovely piece will place the be to the worlded Garden where the vegetables are [Music] grown there herds as well like a Peter do well over there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all of a sudden we get nice little bit traffic free which is recovery I happen to cross a manically busy road [Music] [Music] we’re near driver Abby and this was the first ever suspension bridge built in Scotland if I’ve got my facts [Music] correct I think that’s one of the three sisters at M rose that we’ve just come away from it’s wonderful vol up here which seems rather bizarre already cuz we’re so close to the Abby grounds [Music] [Music] behind walls on the right hand side it’s um FL Castle CL Castle grounds yeah one of the gate one of the gate hous is coming up [Music] well we just had a a rest break in Kelo and have to give a shout out for the quality of food and lovely stuff at Cafe Y and it is just Cafe let it y we had a brilliant um veggie chili in there and coffee with two shots of espresso that should keep us going for it and then they wrapped up some cake to go so should be okay for the next 20 miles until we get to [Music] lauram hello [Music] well it’s 23 minutes past 4 and it’s actually stopped raining and the clouds have lifted we’re not even sure if any of the video we’ve taken during the day is going to be of any Goose because any good any use because it’s been raining so much and no amount of wiping the lens seem to make any difference we’ll see well that’s beginning to feel a bit closer to home I do believe that’s two H ahead of us be 40.67 miles into into today’s Journey having a place called echles here just seems wrong just doesn’t sound like the kind of name you would expect to find in this [Music] area for [Music] the best things about hang out in the baset we traveling September gets closer to October is p so much Farmland where they’re actually recently or are in the middle of plowing the fields and you get that amazing scent coming off the soil just nothing else like it [Music] [Music] [Music] here we go goodbye Scotland it was fabulous hello North on Bel well we just entered Norm is we’re going to be staying tonight [Music]