Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
EYEMOUTH AND AROUND
By bus
Buses to Eyemouth stop in Albert St, one block
south of the main shopping thoroughfare.
Destinations
Edinburgh (Mon-Sat 7 buses, Sun 3 buses; 2hr); St Abbs
(hourly; 15min).
Berwick-upon-Tweed
(hourly;
20min);
INFORMATION
Tourist office
The tourist information centre is in
Eyemouth Museum, Auld Kirk, Manse Rd (Easter-Oct
Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun noon-4pm;
T
01890
751701).
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ACCOMMODATION AND EATING
Ì
Giacopazzi's
18 Harbour Rd
T
01890 750317,
W
giacopazzis.co.uk.
There's no mistaking from the man-
sized ice-cream models outside this shop that Giacopazzi's
are tremendously proud of their gelatos. Made daily, the ice
cream is, for many, a reason alone to come to Eyemouth
they do a good fish tea too here, for £10 (or £5.90
takeaway).
Sun-Thurs 9am-8pm, Fri-Sat 9am-9pm.
Redhall Cottage
A1107, 1 mile south of Eyemouth
T
01890 781488,
W
redhallcottage.com.
An attractive,
solitary terrace of four farm-workers' cottages, converted
into a guesthouse and restaurant with snug bar. The
rooms are all en suite with a good breakfast selection
each morning; while restaurant meals are the most
refined in this neck of the woods. Mains range from a £9
vegetarian risotto to £15 for lamb shank with mash and
real gravy.
Food served Mon-Thurs 10
am-
11pm, Fri-
Sat 10am-1am, Sun 11.30am-11pm.
£80
The Tweed valley
Rising in the hills far to the west, the
River Tweed
snakes its way across the Borders until
it reaches the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed, most of its final stretch forming the
boundary between Scotland and England. his is the area known as the
Merse
(from the
Old English for marsh), a flat landscape of rich farmland and wooded riverbanks where
the occasional military ruin serves as a reminder of more violent days. he
Border abbeys
-
perhaps the best reason for visiting the region - also lie in ruins, not because of the
Reformation, but because they were burnt to the ground by the English, for whom the
lower Tweed was the obvious point at which to cross the border into Scotland.
Edinburgh
Gordon
Legerwood
Eccles
Mellerstain
House
Langshaw
Stichill
Earlston
Smailholm
Ednam
Sprouston
Galashiels
Floors
Castle
Smailholm
Tower
Gattonside
Scott's
View
Kelso
Melrose
Dryburgh
Abbey
Abbotsford
St Boswells
Heiton
Roxburgh
Bowden
Maxton
Selkirk
Midlern
Nisbet
Ancrum
Lilliesleaf
v
Crailing
Newcastleton
Langholm
