Friday 4th July 2025
Let’s go North tour.
We arrived mid afternoon and sadly the weather hasn’t been too kind since we arrived, very strong winds and heavy drizzle, so we haven’t ventured too far from Homer. The sites laundry is about 10m from our pitch so Michelle didn’t get too wet as she dodged back and forth doing the weeks washing.
The site is quite large and has a mixture of holiday cabins, permanently sited touring vans and pitches for people like us that just want one night, the site is immaculate, extremely well maintained.
The drive today was a challenge and experience, many of the roads we drove on wouldn’t have been out of place in a fairground as a roller coaster. The road would drop down into a dip and then crest on a blind summit with no way of knowing which way the road continued and all this whilst fighting a strong crosswind. The joys of motorhome driving.
We stopped enroute at Jedburgh which turned out to be a very pleasant town, there was lots of free parking with plenty of space and that was an encouraging start. The town has many old buildings and the first we came across was the ruined Abbey.
There were blue circular information signs on many of the buildings throughout town, the info was interesting but too numerous to photograph.
Signs lead us down a side street to Mary Queen of Scots House, sadly the facade was in a narrow street and i couldn’t take a photo to do it justice, the following were taken in the gardens to the rear. Michelle went on a tour of the house whilst Layla and I tried to keep warm on a park bench.
We enjoyed our walk around, everywhere was well cared for, only one charity shop! compared to about 12 in Ripon, we didn’t go in, no dogs allowed😵💫 I would recommend it as a pleasant stopover.
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