In the spirit of the homecoming year and being the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, we are arranging a themed weekend as a different kind of trip from our normal weekends.
On this basis we intend heading into Ayrshire on Saturday 24th October and spending the morning and early afternoon touring around the locations associated with the birth and early years of Burns’ life.
We will be visiting some of the spots which inspired his poetry such as Tam o Shanter, including the Brig o Doon and Alloway Kirk (with its resident witches and warlocks).
We intend lunching in this area before heading south through the Ayrshire scenery which inspired him to write his poems about the beauty of nature and have a Saturday night stopover at the Clonyard House Hotel in Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Ideally, we would like some Burns entertainment for the Saturday evening so anyone who is coming along and would like to offer some ‘sangs’ and ‘clatter’ then please let us know. While no formal Burns evening is envisaged hopefully within the assembled company we can gather together some entertainment.
Sunday takes us through the romantic Dumfriesshire countryside which inspired a lot of his romantic writing and where he lived both as farmer and exciseman and leads us finally to Dumfries itself where we can view the home where he spent his last days and also his final resting place before lunching and then heading back northwards and home through the scenic Galloway Forest Park.
The final lunch stops and route details have still to be finalised and we will post these as they become confirmed.
While this event is arranged as a weekend trip anyone who wishes to join for either or both of the day runs will be equally welcome.
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