Cringletie, John Buchan

'Not many people had the tenacity of John Buchan, whose love of Peebles, where he spent his childhood holidays with his grandparents, was so visceral that he ended up standing as a prospective Tory MP here.

'That he lost to the Liberals didn’t seem to dim his ardour for this Scottish Borders town, the surroundings of which are the setting for the most famous of his Richard Hannay novels: The Thirty-Nine Steps.'



Discovering lasagne pies in Peebles in Scotland
Rob Crossan finds that there's a 'jollity' to the Scottish Borders town of Peebles. He stays at Cringletie, a 19th-century hotel surrounded by 'brooding woodland'.

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