Newton Stewart

Orchid in The Buck Cafe Straiton

Anne and I went off down to Straiton and Newton Stewart over the past two days.
We took walk up Bennan at Straiton Friday morning followed by a walk in the ancient Oak Wood of Knockman just north of Minigaff in the afternoon, before treated ourselves to a night in Creebridge House Hotel, pleasant suroundings and a very nice evening meal.
There was a birthday party on in the hotel so it was all go up to midnight.
Today we went across to Glen Trool for a walk up to Loch Valley.
Glen Trool was nice but the walk was pretty awfull, really boggy with slippy rocks that were hard to avoid, and it rained.
We had a picnic lunch on a tiny beach by the loch as the weather closed in, so we just made our way back, getting rather wet and cold, managed a few pictures for the album.
On the way back home we stopped off at the Buck Cafe in Straiton for a coffee and a nice bit of cake.