Enjoying Your Holiday

Text Box: Beauty & Fitness Newstead Mill has a unique arrangement with a local fitness and beauty centre “Fiona Anns”. The centre is 8 minutes by car and is situated in buildings close to the Dryburgh Swing Bridge over the River Tweed. The fitness centre consists of a good range of cardiac and weight equipment options as well as a spa area containing a Jacuzzi and Sauna. If you have come on your holiday with aches and pains, a physiotherapist is available for consultation. Fiona Ann’s has been awarded a “gold” salon status by Clarins, a tribute to the professional, experienced staff and the wide range of treatments available: · Facials including the microderm abrasion treatment (MDA) · Body treatments with massages, sea salt scrub and spa body wraps · Hand and feet treatments. · Essentials – waxing treatments, electrolysis and IFL · Relaxing treatments – reflexology, La Stone Therapy, Indian Head Massage · St Tropez Tanning Fiona Mallen, the proprietor of the fitness and beauty centre has made the following special packages available to Newstead Mill holidaymakers in addition to the normal treatments displayed below: Daily membership of the gym and spa - £10 Holiday makers special -morning or afternoon at the gym and spa with 2 of the following 3 treatments - mini facial, manicure and pedicure - £50. This price will also include a Clarins “goody bag”. Every effort will be made to fit in your appointments made during the week of your stay. However if you make a booking 4 weeks before your holiday, you are less likely to be disappointed! Opening hours Monday to Friday 9.30am to 8.30pm Saturday 9am to 5pm Sunday 8.30am to 2.30pm Contact details Tel: +44 1835 822260 E Mail: fionamallen@hotmail.co.uk

Text Box: Cycling The Scottish Borders is great to explore by bicycle. The gently rolling hills make getting about easy and you can cover a lot of ground in very little time. Find routes at http://www.visitscottishborders.com/whattoseeanddo/activities/cycling/default.htm A short drive north to Peebles and Innerleithen offers some of the best mountain biking in Scotland. Details at http://www.thehubintheforest.co.uk/ and http://www.7stanes.gov.uk/forestry/achs-5rnfvj

Glentress Forest, near Peebles

Text Box: Dining Experiences & Groceries At home: W.F Anderson, The Square, Melrose Fresh produce from the river and the farm is always available in Melrose. The local fishmonger daily stocks the fish caught in Eyemouth on the East Coast. Mr Anderson’s family travel the 30 miles to Eyemouth daily and pick the freshest cod, haddock, salmon and shell fish straight from the fisherman’s boats for the tables in Melrose. A good proportion of the Scottish fish catch is transported to the Mediterranean on a daily basis, but we in Melrose receive the fish 24 hours before the visitors on the Mediterranean. If you have any special requests Mr Anderson will find the fish of your choice if the boats have landed it that day. The local butcher buys his meat from the Borders. Locally grown lamb and beef are particularly succulent. Also available are venison and grouse and the popular scotch pies and haggis. Abbey Wines, 17 Market Square, Melrose Ian and Joanne Gibbin are the local connoisseurs and purveyors of fine wine. Ian and Joanne will provide you with a wine list to tempt you and `will deliver the case ready for your arrival. If your party would find a wine tasting or a whisky tasting evening of interest, Rhymers Fare would be happy to oblige. W and A Williamson, High Street, Melrose Scotland is not generally known for its fruit and vegetables. In Melrose however at Anderson’s fruit shop there is an abundance of choice. In summer this can be supplemented by the many pick your own establishments in the area. Country Kitchen, 1A Market Square, Melrose This lovely shop, run by Ronnie and Myra, stocks a vast array of cheeses, many of which you may not have seen before. Of course there is a vast array of other mouth watering food and we can only advise visiting the delicatessen to see and taste for yourself. Supermarkets Tesco and Asda both open 24 hours are also available in Galashiels which is about 10 minutes by car with ample car parks. Outside: Within walking distance Burts Hotel, High Street, Melrose A family run town house with extensive bar menus and exquisite table d'hôte Town House Hotel, Market Square, Melrose An ambient restaurant with a menu specialising in local produce Monte Cassino, Palma Place, Melrose A family run Italian restaurant set in the converted Melrose station a stone’s throw from the main square. Marmion’s Brasserie Buccleuch Street, Melrose An established restaurant equally enjoyable for both lunch,dinner and even just for coffee Ship Inn East Port, Melrose A traditional welcoming pub with a wide range of beers and spirits. It also has a beer garden. Russells Restaurant Market Square, Melrose A delightful licensed coffee house seving home made baking and traditional fayre. Abbotsford. The home of Sir Walter Scott An exclusive dinner parties for upto 22 people can be arranged in the library of this beautiful stately home. This would be a evening to remember under the replica ceiling of Rosalyn Chapel, remembered in the Da Vinci code. www.scottabbotsford.co.uk

Text Box: Fishing The Tweed is the second longest river in Scotland and takes great pride in the fact that it produces more fish than any other river in Britain. It has a deserved reputation as one of the world’s great salmon fisheries. As well as salmon, there is the chance to fish for trout and grayling. The river is just 5 minutes walk from the house. Links www.fishtweed.co.uk www.fishing-scotland.net/tweed.htm www.-flyfishing-scotland.co.uk

Fishing on the Tweed near Melrose

Text Box: Golf Melrose has a number of golf courses on its doorstep. Why not visit a different golf course each day of your holiday? Melrose golf course sits at the foot of the Eildon Hills, St Boswells golf course on the edge of the River Tweed, 5 miles further down the river from Newstead, there is Ladhope golf course which is about 5 miles up the river to Galashiels and is a stone’s throw from the golf course at Torwoodlee. If four courses in a week is not sufficient, why not try Jedburgh, Lauder or Roxburghe Golf Courses? You can also take advantage of the Freedom of the Fairways offer created by the Scottish Borders Tourist. Links Melrose Golf Club St Boswells Golf Club Ladhope Golf Club Torwoodlee Golf Club Jedburgh Golf Club Lauder Golf Club Roxburghe Golf Club

St Boswells Golf Course

Text Box: Rugby The Scottish Borders is famous for its rugby. As well as the Border Reivers side there is also the traditional Border League where inter-town rivalries are age old. The Rugby Sevens game was invented in Melrose over a century ago and the annual sevens tournament, held in April, is world-famous, still attracting the world’s top rugby sevens teams. A trip to Melrose RFC’s home ground ‘The Greenyards’ to watch a Saturday afternoon tussle is most recommended. Links Melrose RFC The Melrose Sevens Gala RFC The Border Reivers

The Greenyards

Text Box: Walking There are lots of lovely little strolls that you can set off on right from the house. If you take the path down through Eddy Road go on to the Battery Wall to view the river. It will be an unusual day if you do not see a heron at the water’s edge. If you walk to the top of the village take the short path to Leaderfoot and view the viaduct completed in the 1860’s and closed in the Beeching era one hundred years later. You will be walking through the land of the Trimontium Roman camp and passing what many suspect, was the amphitheatre built for the pleasure of the Roman soldiers. The Eildon Hills are of course very climbable. You can reach the top of the closest of the three hills in around forty five minutes. The photo on the right is a view of the Eildon Hills that Sir Walter Scott saw on his way to Dryburgh Abbey from his house at Abbotsford. The funeral procession stopped here on Sir Walter Scott’s last journey to his internment in Dryburgh Abbey. Many other walkers, cyclists and motorists stop here now to gaze at “Scott’s View.” Trimontium Walk www.trimontium.net On every Thursday from April to the end of October there is a guided walk lead by the Trimontium Trust members. It is a five mile walk which starts at the Trimontium Exhibition in Melrose Square at 13.30 via Abbey Street, Melrose Abbey, leading on to the Prior’s walk to Newstead. Once in Newstead, you will walk past the sundials, ancient stones and the Masonic Ruin before being shown the Roman sites of the fort and annexes, the Roman Amphitheatre, approaching Newstead village hall for tea along the Roman road from Broomhill. It is 5 miles in length and in the months of July and August will also take place on a Tuesday afternoon. Millennium Walk This walk starts and finishes in the centre of Melrose. You will walk to the surrounding villages of Newstead, Darnick and Newstead. During the walk, special mention will be made of sites of particular historic or environmental interest St Cuthbert’s Walk St Cuthbert’s walk is a sixty two mile walk through the Scottish Border countryside to Lindisfarne (Holy Island) which is off the coast of Northumberland. The walk begins in Melrose and the first part of the walk is accessible from Newstead. www.scottish-walks.co.uk Saint Cuthbert, after whom the walk is named, was born around AD 634 near Melrose. After receiving a divine revelation whilst carrying out his work as a shepherd, he entered the monastery of Melrose. In AD 664 Cuthbert was transferred to Lindisfarne as Prior and later became Bishop. Ranger led walks There is a whole host of other walks both in the vicinity of the house and further a field in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland. Details of these lovely walks will be found in the following web sites: http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/search/type/Walking.html http://walking.visitscotland.com/walks/southscotland/melrose-to-kelso http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/events/12923.html http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/events/12925.html http://www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk/trail/

Leaderfoot Viaduct

The Eildon Hills (as seen from Scots View)

The site of the Masonic Lodge

Trimontium

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Beauty & Fitness

Dining Experiences & Groceries

Text Box: There is much to do in the Scottish Borders for both young and old. This page contains information and links to just some of the ways you can spend your time here. Use the navigation on the left to take you to the different sections.

The
Old Mill House
at Newstead

Fiona Anns Fitness & Beauty Centre

Cardiac Suite

Jacuzzi