Sunday, June 2, 2019

Scotland: to Newton Stewart

All 24 of us take a chartered bus from Glasgow to Newton Stewart.


The people in the seat behind us are our good friends 
Patrice Van Vleek and Glenn Gunterberg.  We're doing this tour - actually the Ireland tour after this one - just for them.

The ride is somewhat unsettling; the two lane roads seem narrower than the bus.  In each of the seemingly hundreds of blind turns the bus has to slow down - almost stop to prevent running into someone coming around the corner. The ride takes over 3 hours - more than expected.


This is a very deserted area.  A farm house every 5 miles or so and a small town every 20 to 30 miles.  (Should I talk like the locals and use kilometers?) As we drive through the towns, we see cars parked on the same side of the road, leaving a single lane.

I observe drivers coming from the opposite direction.  Like our bus driver, they know the limitations of the roads. Everyone is courteous.





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