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Tuesday 31st May 2022 After yesterday’s struggle with non-existent core paths, electric fences, barbed wire and so on we were wondering whether there was a better way to tackle today’s walk. So Jill started interrogating the blogs of several coast walkers who have gone before us. In short we discovered that a majority ignored theContinue reading “Day 201 – Portpatick to Corsewall Lighthouse 17 miles”

Monday 30th May 2022 This is the 200th day on which I have been walking the coast of mainland Britain. I have walked about 3500 miles which is an average of 17.5 miles per day. As to today’s walk; it was mixed. We got the bus to Port Logan and started off along the pathContinue reading “Day 200 – Port Logan to Portpatrick 14.2 miles”

Sunday 29th May 2022 Being a Sunday there are no buses and so we will need a taxi to get between the beginning and end of the walk. Because it is a peninsula walk the start and finish are only 4.5 miles apart – but walking a hilly road back across the peninsula to theContinue reading “Day 199 – Drummore to Port Logan 19.3 miles”

Saturday 28th May 2022 Today we start on a circuit of the Rhins of Galloway, a hammer head of two peninsulas formed by Luce Bay to the south and Loch Ryan to the north. Having consulted the core paths map for DumGal (Dumfries and Galloway) there are core paths pretty much the whole way roundContinue reading “Day 198 – Dunragit to Drummore 17.5 miles”

Friday 27th May 2022 Today we drove to the end of the walk then got a bus back to the beginning because there is a lack of late afternoon buses. Unfortunately the first bus only got us into Port William at 10.06 which is a very late start for us. The weather forecast was forContinue reading “Day 197 – Port William to Dunragit 17.5 miles”

Thursday 26th May 2022 After yesterday’s 22 miles, I reassured Jill that today’s walk was only 13.25 miles and the last two or three miles would be on the coast road so it would be a bit like a rest day. If only that had been true. This morning it was tipping with rain asContinue reading “Day 196 – Isle of Whithorn to Port William 15.5 miles”

Wednesday 25th May 2022 This was another day of two parts, the first half was tarmac and the second half was along the sea shore – more or less. We drove to Wigtown and parked the car in the main street and set off.  The first half of the walk as far as Innerwell Port, aboutContinue reading “Day 195 – Wigtown to Isle of Whithorn 22 miles”

Monday 24th May 2022 While yesterday was a day of two halves, today was a day of uniformity – tarmac uniformity. We departed from our B&B in Gatehouse of Fleet and drove to Carsluith and left the car outside the village hall. We walked through the village, such as it is. It is not muchContinue reading “Day 194 – Carsluith to Wigtown 18.6miles”

Monday 23rd May 2022 Today really was  day of two contrasting parts. The first was really quite tough but with good views and the second was dangerous walking along the A75. We caught the bus from Gatehouse of Fleet and asked the bus driver to drop us at the car park at Brighouse Bay. WeContinue reading “Day 193 – Brighouse Bay to Carsluith 20 miles.”

Sunday 22nd May 2022 Today’s walk was intentionally short because we had a longish drive to start off with. We drove to Brighouse Bay and met with Allan’s Taxi and were taken back to Kirkcudbright to resume our walk. In the fifteen minutes or so taxi ride the clouds began to weep and so theContinue reading “Day 192 – Kirkcudbright to Brighouse Bay 11 miles”