Eildon Hills, Melrose

After bidding farewell to my parents we headed off to continue our holiday in Melrose.  We arrived there around 12.45, changed into our walking gear in the car and headed off on the first of our planned Borders walks.  The start of the walk was up through a very slippy clay mud path.  Better terrain was reached and we continued up a scree path to reach the top of Mid Hill (477m) - this gave us wonderful views back down to Melrose and you could see for miles.

Back down Mid Hill, we headed for the second of the Eildon's - West Hill.  We took a slight (and unplanned) detour through Broad Wood and after realising our mistake headed back and up the correct path to the summit.

Leaving West Hill, we headed to the last of the Eildon's - North Hill - the second highest of the three hills.  We steadily made our decent from there, again along a muddy path to reach the edge of some trees before coming out at Rhymers' Stone.  From there we re-joined the St Cuthberts Way and arrived back in Melrose to check into the B&B.  We finished off the night with a good pint (or two) of real ale and some pub grub from the Kings Arms.