Newton Stewart to Isle of Whithorn
24.5miles
It has been 2 months since my last week
away and I was itching to get back on the road again. After a long
journey from Glasgow via Stranraer I arrived in sunny Newton Stewart,
what a difference a place looks when the sun is shining.
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| Cairnsmore From Newton Stewart |
I walked along the busy A746 for a few
miles before veering off to the left along the more sedate B7004,
this was more like it, a road with very little traffic the river
Nith on my left and forest on my right just bliss! The route took me
through Wigtown and then onto Garleston, I got chatting to the shop
keeper in Garleston and she informed me that I could walk along the
coast path for most of the rest of my journey, the path was not
marked on my map but I went for it anyway!! It turns out that the
path along the coast has only just been opened and it had all the mod
cons of a path with kissing gates, bridges and styles. However I did
have to proceed with caution as a lot of the fields had cows and
calf's, as long as I remembered to not get between the two then I
would be safe!!
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| Dinnans Fort |
This is my neck of the woods and I am hoping to start a coastal walk soon to be completed in 10 years. Great to read your blog and I will be following it and hope to set up my own walking blog soon. I think the view you say is Criffel in your first photo is actually of Cairnsmore. Criffel is over by Castle Douglas. Look forward to your next post
ReplyDeleteWell spotted! I take so many photos, that by the time I get home and I'm sat at the computer thinking "where is that?" so sometimes its a bit of guess work and this time wrongly so!!
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