Most Scottish trips on here are to the highlands but an alternative is Galloway. Great roads views and food and a lot closer to Englandshire. A couple of pics from my trip down there last week
Not quite the Borders, well not with England, all of the pics are only about 20 miles from Northern Ireland. Doing the borders down to Keilder at the weekend
It is Portpatrick, I have eaten in Campbells in the past but this time we were staying in the Waterfront(blue building in the middle of the first pic) and the food there was very good. Portpatrick is great for seafood.
I was there mid week and did Castle and gardens ( yes I am getting old) the are a few pubs and lots of friendly people. A couple of pubs had signs up for live music at the weekends.. not a disco night life type of place though. Take a run down to the Mull of Galloway and you can see the lake district, Isle of Man and N Ireland , it is spectacular in stormy weather.