I arranged to meet John and Ken from Edinburgh at Harestanes Visitor Centre near Ancrum at 10.30am and we arrived within a minute of each other. The walk was an almost 5 mile one to the top of Peniel Heugh, which is 237M high and on it sits the Waterloo Monument. The monument was built between 1817 and 1824 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. There is a projecting gallery at the top of the monument but the tower is not open to the public. The hill is the site of an iron age fort.
These trees appealed to me so I took a photo of them only to discover I had taken the same photo 8 years ago when we last visited.
Ken and John were good company. We missed Tom who was packing for his holiday to Barbados.
A wee pond on one of the many paths through the woods
The Waterloo Monument on the summit of Peniel Heugh
The locked gate stopping us from getting to the balcony
This is Ruberslaw in the distance and we have climbed that a couple of times.
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See how a visit to the rugby can get you moving!!!
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