Holiday Scotland

The Cross Keys Hotel in Peebles Northgate is so entrenched in history it should have a special “Don’t touch me badge” because it has changed so much over the centuries and few have researched why it was built in the first place. In 1261 the remains of Saint Nicholas of Myrna were found in a [...]

One wild and stormy night a lone traveller was riding through the countryside just outside Peebles when he heard the sound of bagpipes. He looked for the piper and when he found him he asked him if he could accommodate him for the night. The piper, who was driving his cattle home, presumed that the [...]

Stately and commanding, Neidpath Castle stands on the banks of the River Tweed just outside Peebles. It is over 800 years old, the walls are 15 ft thick and it has a long and bloody history. Here Lady Anne Douglas died in the chapel when she was praying and her gown was lit by a [...]

  Stobo, near Peebles may be rather off the beaten track to many but this beautiful part of the Tweeddale region is worth seeing with its woodland and streams and dry-stane dykes chequering the countryside. During the 18th Century it was home to a rather unusual figure, David Ritchie. “Bowed Davie” as he was known, [...]