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Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!


Postby dooterbang » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:17 pm

Route description: St Abb's Head, St Abbs

Date walked: 01/11/2014

Time taken: 4 hours

Distance: 8 km

Ascent: 500m

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Weather forecasts predicted sunshine on Scotland's East Coast, so we left Glasgow at 7am and headed for St Abbs.
The sky lit up with an orange and pink glow over the Pentlands as we headed down the M8, couldn't help thinking we should've left 90 minutes earlier and took in the sun rising from St Abbs head...!

Arrived around 9am and we were walking 9.30am. Very easy walk to follow as numerous information boards and signposts help you take the right path. Deviated slightly from the WH route to take in some of the cliffs/coastline.

Cliffs - We walked half way along!
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Sea Stacks
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Lighthouse - We had lunch here!
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Nice walk across undulating grassy terrain.
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St Abbs Village
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St Abbs Residents!
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It was 45 minutes drive from St Abbs up the coastline to North Berwick. The car park at Law Hill had an interesting field full of brussel sprouts - almost tempted :lol: !

Law Hill
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Birdies!
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Bass Rock
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Just a wonderful walk that takes in dramatic cliffs/coastlines, colourful fields, a lighthouse, a Nordic looking village, jagged rock formations and the sea.

Looks like I'm destined for the smaller, but stunning walks, due to my knee injury flaring up on my 1st return to a gym class (metafit) after almost a year! After taking it easy for the last 12 months, and receiving physio, I thought I was ready to take the next step and get back into some full on cardio classes...I hope I improve for winter :shock:
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby Scotjamie » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:45 pm

Nice going Db. Great pics of the St Abbs walk as well as of my home town and the Law (almost see my house in one of the pics). Hope the knee repairs soon.
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby Huff_n_Puff » Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:56 pm

Great photos, looks a lovely area :D . Hope the knee improves, in my experience it can be difficult finding the difference between therapeutic exercise and 'overdoing it' :wink: :roll:
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby rockhopper » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:58 am

Sorry to hear about your knee. doots - hope it heals up soon. Nice area for a wander - cheers :)
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby kev_russ » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:35 pm

Nice wan Doots. Looks like a wee braw day oot :)
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby Johnny Corbett » Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:48 pm

Done a few coastal routes but not this one. Must keep it in mind, looks good. :D
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby BlackPanther » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:10 pm

I'm a sucker for cliff walks, shame this one is so far away from Inverness... I would love to visit the south-east of Scotland at some point :D
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Re: Eastern Promises - Sunshine, Sea & Sand!!

Postby dooterbang » Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:04 pm

Johnny Corbett wrote:Done a few coastal routes but not this one. Must keep it in mind, looks good. :D

I can't believe I've done something you haven't :shock: :lol:
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