Scotland

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So we left our lovely houseboat and hit the road towards Scotland with an overnight stop in York. We spent the day in and around York and headed for our hotel, only to get there and be told their boiler had broken and they were relocating us to hotel 20 miles back in the direction we had already come in Leeds. As it turns out this wasn't a bad thing as there was more shopping to be done there as well.

Yesterday we drove up to Scotland to our timeshare near the town of Dailley which is lovely. We stopped at Gretna Green which is the border town between Scotland and England and is known at the town where people used to elope to to get married off by the local blacksmith as the law states that you only have to be over 16 to get married (and still is).

Today we headed off exploring the south western coast of Scotland and stopped in at Kilmarnock, Ayr, Dunure(for tea) tried out the Electric Brae, where you are supposed to coast uphill due to an optical illusion, but it didn't work - I think we were going the wrong way. Unfortunately when we got to Culzean Castle it was closed, but the view of it was great. Tyhen we went through Turnberry, saw the Ailsa Craig(volcanic plug) and then on to Girvan which is only about 5 miles from our resort. The south Western Scottish coast has a typical collection of seasde resort towns like a lot of other regions in the country.