Some would have stopped but we drove straight past Turnbury and Troon golf courses and numerous others on the road to Oban. We were fortunate to have some fine sunny weather when we were on the coast near Girvan. Sharon’s ancestors were from there once but when we walked through the old cemetery, the only thing of interest were headstones with carvings of the skull and crossbones on them. “Rrrrr me hearties! Was they pirates?”
The National Trust card helped us with free entry to Culzean Castle which was good enough to pay the 24 pounds, but we were glad we didn’t have to all the same.Got to Loch Lomand by late afternoon and booked a B & B at Arrochar. When the sparrows woke me up with their familiar singing in the morning, I took a stroll along the lake but a half an hour was enough in the pre-dawn light. “Hoots mun, It was cold!”
The drive through the mountains along the lakes and through the forests to Oban on the west coast was not bad at all. The port here is full of fishing boats, big and small and is quite lively. Kids are back at school and are walking the streets in their school uniforms which makes me happy I’m only seeing them in the street and not in my classroom. How many weeks till we go back to work?