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Day’s total kms: 15.5km The day was absolutely gorgeous! Sunny with a breeze when we needed one. Dad surprised me this morning with the suggestion that we do the high path, which is 14.5km rather than 11km. Great idea! The view we had was stunning! We started from the apartment at 9am and got toContinue reading “Day 14 (last walking day): Largs to Skelmorlie”

Day’s total kms: 10km Beautiful day with lots of sun. About 16C with gentle breeze. The bus only runs every two hours on Sunday and not until 10am, so we caught the first bus to Fairlie and started walking at about 10:30. We missed a sign around these houses in Fairlie somewhere, and found ourselvesContinue reading “Day 13: Fairlie to Largs”

Day’s total km: 13.5km Aside from one 5 min sprinkle at about 11am today, the day was sunny and warm. The sea breeze was a bit chilly before noon, but oh that sun! We left the flat at 9:15 for the bus and started walking at 9:50am. The morning walk was beautiful. The walk fromContinue reading “Day 12: Seamill Hydro to Fairlie”

Day’s total kms: 13km Temp: overcast with 12-14C through the day. Blue skies with clouds by evening. Wind: westerly winds (we’re walking north and northwest) between 30 (11am) and 24km/h, with gusts of 30-40km/h (it’s windy). 10% chance of rain through most of the day. Not much, if any, rain today. I woke up feelingContinue reading “Day 11: Ardrossan South Beach to Seamill”

Day’s total km: 17km Weather: cold (10-12C), wet and windy (as in near gale force winds windy). We took the train to Irvine this morning. It stopped raining while we walked to the station (about 20 min) and rained almost as soon as we arrived. Beautiful timing! We went to Saffy’s in Ayr for dinner.Continue reading “Day 10: Irvine to Ardrossen”

Day’s total km: 13.8km Left apartment at 9am. Bus to Troon. Started walking at 10am. Windy and cold. I had both my puffy jacket and raincoat on. Started raining around 10:30am until about 1pm. Most of today was along beach. The tide was high at 10:40am, but we had promenade to walk on. By theContinue reading “Day 9: Troon to Irvine”

Day’s kms: 14.4km We left the flat at 9:45 am. I read today that a Basking Shark washed up on shore with line around its tail the night after we passed through Maidens. Dad is being a trooper. I know he’s tired. We are over the half way mark now, with only 6 more walksContinue reading “Day 8: Ayr to Troon”

Day 6’s km: 19km total (includes walking around to find the trail again). Day 7’s total (rest day) 9km. Dad and I took the bus from Ayr back to Dunure and met Gillian at 10:45am at Dunure Castle ruins. Gillian left us in Ayr, and Dad and I went to find dinner before heading backContinue reading “Days 6 & 7: Dunure to Ayr & rest day”

Day’s total km: 17km (includes walking around Ayr after arrival) Sunny! Long stretches of beach, some rock walking, forest path, fields, road side. We took the bus to Ayr from Dunure, and headed to our new accommodations, which had a high rating on Booking.com. Sadly, it did not deserve those ratings, and both my andContinue reading “Day 5: Maidens to Dunure”

Day’s kms 13.9 Overall, a lovely day and I have a sun burn. Okay, maybe it’s a wind burn. We took a taxi to our start point in Girvan this morning. Soon after we were dropped off, the rain came. It was with us for about 30 mins and then it stopped and the restContinue reading “Day 4: Girvan to Maidens”