Glentress trip.........

Malcolmstein
Malcolmstein Posts: 11
edited August 2009 in Routes
Got back into mountain biking this year and lovin it... been riding singletrack in local woods mainly with a few trips to Learnie thrown in. Plan to move onto Golspie and Laggan next, now the fitness and confidence have grown.
Next spring I was going to organise a trip for a handfull of relative newbies to Glentress. I was hoping you would share some of your stories and opions on best places to stay, B&B/ camping.. whatever... which pubs to check out down that way...you get the idea.
Looking to get a good mix of trials during the day and good craic and partying at night.
All the best....

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  • trailpuppet
    trailpuppet Posts: 381
    http://www.mtb-borders.com/

    http://www.7stanes.com/

    not sure there is much partying goes on, small town etc.

    1 good Indian & Pizza plce to eat, need to book.

    Might be better staying in Edin(more expensive tho)

    PS...more GT types on singletrackworld than here.
    Sorry BkRdr
  • Mrs Toast
    Mrs Toast Posts: 636
    We went on a biking holiday to Glentress for our honeymoon, and returned a year later for our anniversary. We stayed at Glede Knowe just down the road in Innerleithen, and it's absolutely fantastic.

    In Peebles, the Indian is good (The Prince of India), but you do need to book as sometimes they're pretty rammed. The Chinese (The Mandarin Garden) doesn't look like much, but the food's pretty good. The Glentress Hotel does ruddy great food! The Peebles' fish bar is nice, but does deep-fried pizza, which is inherently wrong.
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    Mrs Toast wrote:
    The Peebles' fish bar is nice, but does deep-fried pizza, which is inherently wrong.

    all chippies in scotland do these....and they taste great
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Peebles and Innerleithen are lovely wee towns but there is no partying there, possibly by law. The average age of the residents is 87, and that's only including the ones who aren't undead.

    If you want some decent nights out, probably best to stay in edinburgh and "commute", it's not far.
    Uncompromising extremist
  • BurtonM
    BurtonM Posts: 425
    explain to me what a deep fried pizza is ?
    yeehaamcgee wrote:

    That's like saying i want a door for my car that doesn't meet the roof, because I once had the wind blow it shut when I was getting in, and I had my head squished between, well, the door and the roof.
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    It is exactly what it says on the tin :lol: Don't tell me you've never had a pizza and said "This is missing something, a certain je ne sais qua... I know! MORE FAT! And extra lumpy bits!"

    It's a bit like the scotch egg... Someone looked at an egg and said "Well, this is alright, but it'd be better if it was more like a pork pie"
    Uncompromising extremist
  • RockyRaccoon
    RockyRaccoon Posts: 21
    Northwind wrote:

    It's a bit like the scotch egg... Someone looked at an egg and said "Well, this is alright, but it'd be better if it was more like a pork pie"

    :lol::lol::lol::lol: Brilliant!!
  • jack118
    jack118 Posts: 1
    Mrs Toast wrote:
    We went on a biking holiday to Glentress for our honeymoon, and returned a year later for our anniversary. We stayed at Glede Knowe just down the road in Innerleithen, and it's absolutely fantastic.

    In Peebles, the Indian is good (The Prince of India), but you do need to book as sometimes they're pretty rammed. The Chinese (The Mandarin Garden) doesn't look like much, but the food's pretty good. The Glentress Hotel does ruddy great food! The Peebles' fish bar is nice, but does deep-fried pizza, which is inherently wrong.


    the lychee chinese restaurant on the northgate they are serving amazing foods.
    highly recommended!

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