Bike Packing The Borders Abbeys Way (walking route)

 

Last Month we got away before the clocks changed for 3 nights camping and cycled the Borders Abbey Way - the walking route - there is also a road route. G had cycled that 3 times in the past but always wanted to try cycling the walking route. So in her usual military style preparation G had all the route down onto one A4 sheet and left a lot of time as knew from YouTube walking films, books etc that there could be a lot of styles to get over and gates to negotiate. This trip of around 70 miles would not be about munching miles but getting between ideal places to camp with loads of time to set up camp before id would be dark by 6pm at the latest...

As it turned out the weather was unseasonably warm esp at night and we only encountered heavy rain showers in the evenings and through the night when we were in the tent all fed and watered.The days would start with a breakfast before breaking camp and packing up and we would have at least one cafe stop around mid day or before to have a second breakfast.  Evenings were in the tent watching Tent TV! on G's tablet!...

Pictures bt G and I as usual did filming. They are not in order as always seem to happen and it takes too long to sort them in order so have a scroll through them and the film if after...

Film is quite long, so grab a cuppa and sit back while we do the hard work of getting laden bikes of those pesky styles!, to be fair from Melrose to Kelso it was a lot better...

Music is now by my big brother 'Scottish Nature Boy' on Soundcloud as has no Royalties as my channel is now Monetised as getting enough views now with the Motorbike films that are getting huge number and comments!

More soon...