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Scotwalk - Guided walking tours. Lists various walks by category and location.

St Mary's Loch - Offers a virtual tour. Lists accommodation information, visitor attractions, eating establishments and local history.

Scotland Hiking - Guided walking vacations. Overview of the routes, costs and schedule.

Local Tourist Board - Information on places to stay and things to do while visiting the area.

Floors Castle - Home of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe. Provides information about the property, facilities and the gardens and grounds. Visitor information, events and contact details are also included.

Coast & Castles - Cycling route accommodation listing bed and breakfast, hotels and other places to stay and includes Reivers official cycling routes. Author contact information and useful links.

The Glenholm Centre - Family-run 3 star guest house set on an upland sheep farm near Broughton. Lists accommodation details and information on computer training courses.

Ferniehirst Mill Lodge and Riding Centre - Offering trail riding and trekking holidays in the Cheviot Hills. Includes details of the centre, bed and breakfast accommodation, price list and booking form. Information about available horses is also included.

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(Cher) Travel and Tourism This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Travel and Tourism "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Travel and Tourism It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Travel and Tourism A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Travel and Tourism Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. 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