Walking Weekend 2019 - Day Three

Saturday now and Ken's plan was for us was to walk from Peebles to Innerleithen and lunch at the Traquair Arms, which has a nice beer garden.

The weather was again superb and the Borders hills remained wonderfully quiet despite it being the weekend:

Coming off the hills, we were back on tarmac for a bit:

We looked around but there appeared to be no path along the river from here to Innerleithen, which was still a couple of miles away and the road was so narrow and windy that it would have been dangerous for us to walk it, so this was when Ken produced his joker card and phoned the local taxi firm who came out and took us, in two tranches, in their 8 seater to the Traquair Arms for lunch and beers:

Our stats for the morning walk were:

We had dinner booked this evening at the Horseshoe Inn, Eddleston, which would mean catching the 6:15 pm bus and time was now marching on, so several of us opted to catch the bus back to Peebles - and managed to squeeze in another swift pint at the Bridge. The others decided to stick with Plan A and take the "5 mile" walk along the riverside way, which turned out to be 7 miles long, meaning a very swift turn-round.

Dinner at the Horseshoe was excellent and we all safely made the bus back to Peebles.