This is Allendale, after all, and tonight the ‘guisers will be out in full force, marching away from the Lych Gate in front of the Golden Lion and the King’s Head, and down around the Dale, turning left at the…
Category: Tourism
Boxing Day: the sales, a run, or a rest maybe?
For families throughout this patch, today is probably something of a let-up from the pressure to be nice over Christmas Day itself. Back to normality then?! Shopping, anyone? Some of us will be resting after the excesses of the day…
Sinderhope Pony Trekking Centre
I called Lisa Collingwood-Philipson on 01434 685266 the other day to chat about the pony trekking centre up at Sinderhope that she’s run since about ’99. It’s no wonder the enterprise is such a success, since she’s so down-to-earth friendly!…
Langley Castle’s Hallowe’en
Not a view locals are used to seeing, of this iconic 14th Century castle, this is Langley Castle from the rear, with the new dining room extension. Wikipedia notes that Langley Castle’s most remarkable feature is included in the south-west…
Greetings from Achiltibuie
Postcard from the far far north in the Highlands of Scotland. So many local folks we’ve chatted with, before we headed north into the misty glens, had visited Achiltibuie, that we just had to make this faraway outpost our primary…
Cart’s Bog Inn at Langley
At lunch the other day in the Cart’s Bog Inn, I had a quick chat with Stuart Davison, who I discovered is expecting to be celebrating running the place for a decade in March 2020. I remember so well when…
Pots in the Byre
I dropped in to Steph Jamieson‘s annual ‘Pots in the Byre’ show at Broadwood Hall Studios, yesterday, just before the heavens opened and the rain came down in a deluge, to see some of the pottery displays. The day before,…
Langley Dam: Fishing and Glamping
Today at Langley Dam Lake it’s the Freddie White Memorial Macmillan Day, from 9am as noted on the business’s facebook page, with donations going to Macmillan Cancer Support. The Langley Dam enterprise has recently added a diversification component to its…
The Garden Station, Langley
These Allen Valleys, East and West, are blessed with the most idiosyncratic, and lovely, places for events. And sometimes, because the places are so fetching, the events grow up around them. Something like that has happened at The Garden Station,…