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This is night No. 2/2020 living in a caravan. It's the second night at Lidalia Affiliated C&MC in the village of Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders. Today was a day of walking around Newcastleton, in a couple of nearby forests. Got up at the amazingly late time of 0815 after an almost 12hr sleep! Incredible! This Puck I'm in has a very, very good bed. After getting dressed, took the dogs for a walk along the woods next to the site, passing the old Bull Park, where the village bulls were kept, over the disused mill lade and back through the village. After breakfast, too the short drive south of the village to Thistlesike. There's a carpark for walking in  the Buccleugh Estate woods at Demainholm. Very close to the Border, in fact the hill in the picture is actually in England. Great walking woods with a fine way marked trail. The forest borders a FC wood, the wall probably is also the boundary. Although soggy in places, the path took a grea...