{"id":10309,"date":"1998-07-03T18:58:24","date_gmt":"1998-07-03T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:10:01","slug":"melrose-to-dumfries-by-way-of-carlisle-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/melrose-to-dumfries-by-way-of-carlisle-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose to Dumfries By Way of Carlisle, England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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12:00 pm<\/p>\n

What a day<\/em>! 1st<\/sup>, the bus to Moffat came on the wrong side of the square, so I missed it. \u00a0So, I ended up in Galashiels (a lot<\/em> \u2018nicer\u2019 than the guidebook claims). I came here since it\u2019s supposedly the \u2018hub\u2019 of the bus system in the Borders. I enquired about how to get to Dumfries. \u2018Very easily, go by Carlisle.\u2019 Carlisle? EECHH!!! It\u2019s in ENGLAND!!!! I just hope I won\u2019t be stranded there for too<\/em> long!<\/p>\n

(Of 28 days in the U.K., I spent a long<\/em> 45 minutes in England!)<\/p>\n

3:23 pm<\/p>\n

I just passed a \u2018Welcome to Scotland\u2019 sign. (There is no \u2018Welcome to England\u2019 sign. Further evidence of England\u2019s desire to quelch Scottish nationalism, and Scotland\u2019s desire to assert herself as a separate nation.) My \u2018stay\u2019 in England lasted all of maximum 30 minutes! It looks a lot like Scotland (!). I actually encouraged the local economy by buying something! I got to the stance from which a bus to Dumfries departs, and, to my delight, the next bus was in 22 minutes. I\u2019ll be there in about a half hour. The Cumbrian accent (the little I heard) is actually quite different from the Scottish accent (speaking generally, of course, since there are so many<\/em> different Scottish accents!) Coming into Carlisle, I saw a sign saying \u2018Hadrian\u2019s Wall\u2019. I came this<\/em> close to staying in order to see it!<\/p>\n

6:58 pm<\/p>\n

I made it to Dumfries!!!!!! Since I discovered I had a whole \u00a3100 extra in my account and there are no youth hostels here, I decided to treat myself to a B and B. It\u2019ll cost me \u00a316\/night. I have my very own room!!! Boy does that feel weird<\/em>! A B and B also means restaurants, so this will be an extravagant weekend. Hell, I scrimped and saved for the last month! Ayr youth hostel is full. I\u2019ll see if there are any cancellations Sunday morning. If not, I might just stay the day and get something very <\/em>close to the bus station in Glasgow. It\u2019s too bad that today was basically wasted. Did you know I\u2019m this<\/u><\/em> close to Carrutherstown? I thought I might \u2018pop in\u2019 tomorrow, just to say I\u2019ve been there.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I\u2019m definitely going to see a movie. I have an hour to kill before I leave, so I\u2019ll enjoy the semi-quiet (lots of traffic) of my own room and get ahead with\u00a0Wallace<\/em>. I decided that if I find any other Wallace books, I\u2019ll buy one with the money George gave me. Don\u2019t ask how I\u2019m planning to pack! I\u2019ll figure it out Monday night! Tuesday morning! My last weekend in Scotland…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12:00 pm What a day! 1st, the bus to Moffat came on the wrong side of the square, so I missed it. \u00a0So, I ended up in Galashiels (a lot \u2018nicer\u2019 than the guidebook claims). I came here since it\u2019s supposedly the \u2018hub\u2019 of the bus system in the Borders. I enquired about how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,706,637,636,701,18,3,56],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlisle","category-dumfries","category-england","category-europe","category-melrose","category-scotland","category-travel","category-uk","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}