St Mary's Loch

After two cancelled attempts due to piss poor weather me an the Ginger ninja finally got to make a trip into the borders and vist St Mary's Loch, a popular meeting place for bikers with it having a nice wooden tea hut beside it.

This excursion did not get off to a particulary good start due to nearly being tailgated by some stupid cow who was half asleep coming off the motorway and then having to stop to avoid being hit head on by another driving the wrong way up a one way street!!! so I was feeling slightly apprehensive to say the least but we set sail for the borders from the out skirts of Edinburgh on a dry but overcast Thursday morning and things picked up and we settled into a good rythmn after we cleared the bypass until we came upon someone driving  ford Ka down the middle of the road staddling the white line at 40mph for no apparent reason?

Allan was riding the Purple people eater, the bandit he bought for a song although painted in the heaviest metal flake you have ever seen, but it grows on you , Allan claims not to like it but he has just bought a new phone in matching purple so he protests too much I reckon and I was on my ever faithful Vfr 800, we ate the miles with again being presented by some great scenery, but beware of the sheep wandering on the road in certain places!
We reached the Loch and headed straight inside the cafe which has been there since the 1920's and had a mug of tea and a bacon buttie and I have too add one of the best bacon butties I have ever devoured, that pig tasted heavenly wrapped in a fresh bap. After our snack A wander was in order and although no toilets inside the cafe there is public toilets beside it, they fuckin ming!, if the cafe was built in the 1920's these bogs smell like they where last cleaned then! come on get a grip the local council need to flatten them and build some new one's! they are a blot on a beautiful lanscape.
We set off again heading for Moffat and stopped there for a cornetto muching away on a garage fore court unaware there was a beautiful park behind it with a lake and benches!

The final part of our ride was to take us parallel to the A74 to the sevices at the top of the A702 where we split up and I took the 702 to Peebles and then to home and Allan went up the motorway to Kilmarnock.

we had a great ride out and we intend to explore the borders a bit more in the near future.
Some pics from today.

Cafe

 St Mary's Loch

 The Erratic Sheppard Monument