Wednesday 4 May

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.