Jock's Mystery Tour

Today the sun came out and Jock took us around the Solway coast in the counties of Dumfries and Galloway.We went west through Dalbeattie with its grey granite houses ( red sandstone to the east of the River Nith). We had lunch in Kirkcudbright on the River Dee. It was an artisan town with quaint pastel-colored terraced houses. In the late 1800s the Glasgow Boys , such as James Paterson, Samuel Peploe and the Faed family were famous post- Impressionist artists in Kirkcudbright. We continued to Gatehouse of Fleet , visited Cally Palace hotel with its little red squirrels and back to Dumfries via Castle Douglas.Again lovely autumn colours and nice to see some sun.