Featured Touring Borders Mini Break

We had a hotel booked for 2 nights down the Borders as we were supposed to be going to a wedding nearby but it was postponed until next year (it was originally supposed to be 2020!) so we decided just to go and have a wee break anyway.
We left home on Friday morning and once we got just outside Perth (about 18 miles) it was then a boring 80 miles on the motorway until we turned off at Abbington, we stopped of for a coffee and saw this car with a S&S motor in it

From Abbington we took the B797 down to Wanlockhead we stopped off for a nice lunch at Wanlockhead Inn (The highest pub in Scotland)

they have several small basic wooden chalets you can rent out, not much in them apart from a bed!

There is a lead mining museum nearby but we didn't go as the weather was looking dodgy, a miner carved into a tree trunk beside the Hotel


After lunch we continued on the B797 down the Mennock pass where we stopped off to watch a guy pan for gold, there were several other folk doing the same

the weather was threating rain but luckily it kept dry until we got near our hotel


We then headed to Thornhill and took the A702 a great road with some lovely twisty bits to New Galloway then onto another good road the A762 to Twynholm where we stayed at the Star Hotel very reasonably priced and the breakfasts were great. we were able to park our bike right outside our room ( left the panniers off until it was time to go home on the Sunday)



The next day we went to Crocketford and took the A712 to New Galloway a cracking road from there we took the Queens Way (still the A712) also a great bit of road, it takes you out near the town of Newton Stewart, i didn't want to stop and take pictures as it was misty and there was a bit of light rain. we then went down past Wigtown and up the coast road past Port William a road I'd never been on before, it was a nice road and i imagine if it was a clear sunny day the views would be great but as you can see it wasn't!


From there we went to The Mull Of Galloway Scotland's most southerly point on a clear day you can see Ireland and the isle of Man, but not today
Visitor centre


View from the railings at the side of the visitor centre, it doesn't look high ,but it was!

 

Fridays route down to the hotel (From Abbington)


Saturday mornings route down to Mull Of Galloway (we went back to the hotel a slightly different way)


The route home on the Sunday, we did the Dalveen Pass then on the motorway for a while then cut off after Glasgow to take a more scenic route home

 

The A712 could be up in the Cairngorms or over the west coast somewhere, quite a few cracking roads down there

 

Your thinking of the Dalveen Pass,I think that's the A702, that's a cracking road too

 

The guy i spoke to has found some in the past, but no luck so far that day, yeah the weather wasn't great James which was a pity, this is a picture when we got back into Perthshire


The sun is to return all over Scotland next week though . It was a no brainer taking the BM, far comfier for my Mrs on the back plus loads of room in the panniers and it's much better on wet roads than the Rocket!

 

She thinks they are great Sandi,and for £50.00 they are a bargain

 

The weathers looking good in Mull for the next couple of weeks