I have had difficulty posting/going live with my blogs, hence the gap. I am now in a camp site where, I am assured, the wifi is good so I will, hopefully, catch up.
It occurs to me that some folk may have difficulty working out where I have been so I’ve done a couple of photos:
South West Dumfries and Galloway
East of the above showing Gatehouse of Fleet and Kirkudbright
After leaving Monteith I drove through Whithorn, for me the place so far with the best shop signage. It had a lovely ruined abbey. Another claim to fame is the village was used in filming The Wicker Man – they used a number of sights in the locality.
Whithorn’s main street
Good shop signage
Garlieston harbour – famed for testing and construction of components for the Mulberry harbours
Lochinch Castle, home of Earl and Countess of Stair
Castle Kennedy gardens adjoining Lochinch Castle
The Covenantors’ memorial – where two dissenting women were tied up and drowned by the incoming tide – the estuary has shifted considerably since then.
Wigtown, the 2nd hand book centre of the region and the Town Hall (with the clock tower) had an osprey viewing camera
Notice re wild goats along the Queen’s Way between Newton Stewart and New Galloway
I moved onto Kirkcudbright and parked on the municipal camp site overlooking the town. It was the last evening of lovely weather, I remember as all the kids were hanging about for quite a long time in the kids playground next to the camp site.
All my Mum's family are from Kirkcudbright but I've never been. My grandfather and his sisters were born there and then emigrated to Canada when they were children.
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