Dumfries & Galloway: September

We have made a number of fun day trips out into the Southern Scottish countryside from here in Southerness. A majority of these trips have involved visits to medieval castles and great stone ruins, as well as a few picnics and walks through the emerald forests and along the windswept coast.

We actually became members of Historic Scotland and thus was born a mission to visit all the castles we can, flaunting our free entry. Castles have been prominent in our travels since Germany and the ones in Scotland are really pretty old. Softened sandstone, fireplace remnants, everywhere another battlefield with those bloody English.