Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Categories: places

Tags: photo, Scotland, Culzean, friend, Ayr, food

Date: 19 November 2006 19:32:44

Well obviously, as it's mid-November in Scotland and we've seen our first snow (well, a few flakes anyhow), the beach was the *obvious* place to take my friend who was up staying from London. So here am I on the beach at Ayr, standing to attention:

The island in the background is the Isle of Arran (also sometimes known as "Scotland in miniature"), and you might possibly (if you look at the big photo in Flickr) be able to see the snow on Arran's mountains. I really want to go to Arran. Well, I really want to go to lots of places, but that's quite high on the list. The trouble is, lots of places are quite high on the list. I suppose I can't ever complain that I've got nowhere to go.

After the briefest of walks on the beach (it was very cold!) the rest of the day was spent checking out coffee shops, including at the visitor centre at Culzean Castle, before returning home to eat the Hugest Curry in the World. Sadly the Castle itself and its Walled Garden, which I really wanted to see, closed for the winter at the end of October, but I will definitely go and check it out next year. We also went to a christening this morning. And we talked and talked and talked all weekend, it was great. Must do that again sometime.