Birthday Treat

A couple of weeks ago I decided to take Gaye for a couple of days to Portpatrick instead of buying her a birthday present. Our friends Jean & Wattie Rutherford were keen to join us so on Monday we headed of to Portpatrick. Unfortunately we had to attend the funeral of Nan Brown on the way there so left Jean & Wattie in Castle Douglas for a couple of hours. We stayed in the Rickwood Hotel and it was excellent and I can recommend it to anybody wishing to go to this lovely town.

The view from our Hotel Bedroom.

Portpatrick

On Tuesday morning after a superb breakfast we headed to Wigtown as Gaye wished to see the place where she was brought up as a child. This is the Cafe Bookshop and provided us with excellent coffee and cakes as well as a load of good books. Wigtown is smaller than Langholm and has 11 bookshops as it is Scotland's Book Town. It is worth a visit especially during the last week of September and the first week of October during the annual Book Festival.

This house is where Gaye lived until she was 13 until her mother and father sadly died in 1957 and 1958. The house is exactly the same since she lived there and is in need of some repairs.  

Jean & Gaye at Wigtown Harbour which like her old house is in need of some repairs as it is badly silted up and rarely used these days.

After leaving Wigtown we headed for Kirkcudbright and an Ice Cream near the Harbour. Judging by the faces eating these Ice Creams was a very serious business.

Our final port of call on the way home was Rockliffe near Dalbeattie. On the estuary of the Urr this small village is much less commecialised than it's neighbour Kippford but is a lovely place to go for a walk along the shore.