• Use Len Cottage as your base for exploring Edinburgh. We are 30 mins from the City Bypass and 40 mins from the City Centre
• The Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe - run from 03 August - 02 September 2012
• The Edinburgh Military Tattoo runs from 03 August - 25 August 2012
• Find out more from this guide to Edinburgh
• Visit The List for an excellent Edinburgh restaurant guide

• Glentress Forest, simply the best dedicated mountain bike centre in Britain
• The Hub Café @ The Hub in the Forest is where the punishment ends with world class carrot cake and coffee
• Glentress is now part of the 7 Stanes, a network of mountain biking centres being developed throughout the Borders

• Book a salmon beat on the River Tweed
• Angle for trout at the Kailzie Fishery

• Peebles Golf Club and Cardrona Golf Club are beautiful parkland courses to the north and south of the town
• Use the "Freedom of the Fairways" pass to tour all of these Scottish Borders courses

• Traquair House - Scotland's oldest inhabited castle, also one of its oldest breweries
• Kailzie Gardens - formal gardens with enchanting river walks
• Dawyck Gardens - one of the world's finest arboreta
• Neidpath Castle - a semi-ruin haunted by the "Maid of Neidpath"
• Visit www.borderswalking.com for information on walks that are more of a challenge

Day visit packages featuring health & beauty treatments of unashamed luxury.

• Stobo Castle Health Spa
• Peebles Hotel Hydro Leisure Club
• The Cardrona Hotel

 In Peebles

• The Sunflower - exclusive bistro, superb service but be sure to book before hand
• Osso - café by day, a la carte restaurant by night
• Lazels based in Peebles Hydro - they run an excellent 'SwimLunch' offer
• Castle Venlaw Hotel Restaurant - formal but friendly dining accompanied by marvellous views
   

 Around Peebles

• Cringletie Restaurant - Scottish baronial mansion with an award winning gourmet menu
• The Horseshoe Inn - fine dining restaurant and bistro that vows to get a Michelin star
• Howgate Inn - excellent cuisine with a choice of Bistro or more formal restaurant

• The Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre, just opened, could not be closer. (About 50 metres from Len Cottage!) Impressive calendar of events.