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Slow Dumfries and Galloway Guide - Holiday advice and tourist information covering walking, wildlife, birdwatching, accommodation, restaurants, castles, distilleries, breweries, food and festivals. Also features Robert Burns, Moffat, Langholm, Gretna Green, Dumfries, Thornhill, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Stranraer and Mull of Galloway.
List of contents
CONTENTS
GOING SLOW IN DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY
Some practical matters, Making the most of Slow Dumfries & Galloway, Some historical perspectives, Further reading
1 ANNANDALE & ESKDALE
Getting around, Upper Annandale: Moffat & the north, Mid Annandale, Lower Annandale, Eskdale
2 NITHSDALE
Getting around, Upper Nithsdale, Mid Nithsdale, Lower Nithsdale
3 DUMFRIES & THE NITH ESTUARY
Getting around, Dumfries, Nith estuary: east side, Nith estuary: west side
4 THE STEWARTRY
Getting around, The Glenkens & Loch Ken, Galloway Forest Park, Castle Douglas & the East Stewartry, Gatehouse of Fleet & the West Stewartry, Kirkcudbright & the southern coast
5 THE MACHARS & THE MOORS
Getting around, Newton Stewart & around, The Moors, Wigtown, Whithorn, Stairhaven to Port William, Port William & Monreith
6 THE RHINS
Getting around, Glenluce & the east, Stranraer, The North Rhins: east of Loch Ryan, The North Rhins: west of Loch Ryan, Portpatrick, TheSouth Rhins, The Mull of Galloway
ACCOMMODATION
INDEX
About the author
Donald Greig first came to Dumfries and Galloway at just five weeks old on a family holiday. Many more holidays in the area followed before he moved to the region permanently in 2013. A travel publisher and writer by trade, he has worked for guidebook companies in the UK and Australia and for seven years prior to returning to Scotland was Managing Director of Bradt Travel Guides. He has also written for a range of national publications, including
Scotland on Sunday and
Independent on Sunday newspapers,
Wanderlust, the UK's leading travel magazine, BBC
Countryfile magazine, and
The List magazine. Some of his earliest memories are from Dumfries and Galloway: bluebells in spring in Carstramon wood at Gatehouse-of-Fleet, holidays spent on the beach at Sandgreen and Rockcliffe, fish and chips by the harbour at Kirkcudbright... simple pleasures which continue to attract visitors today as much as they did 40 years ago. 'Dumfries and Galloway has never lost its appeal for me' he says; 'I still find the area's mix of landscapes, distinctive cultural identity and pace of life hugely alluring and I never tire of exploring what's on my doorstep.' Based in the Southern Uplands, he and his partner and co-author, Darren Flint, have also written two walking guides to the region and love welcoming guests to their small B&B, Summerlea House (www.moffatbedandbreakfast.co.uk), in their home in Moffat's conservation area.
Darren Flint is a relative newcomer to the area, settling in Dumfries and Galloway in 2013, yet he was hooked from the outset. Now based in Moffat, he divdes his time between managing local environmental, conservation and community projects, writing and, with his partner and co-author Donald Greig, running their small B&B, Summerlea House (www.moffatbedandbreakfast.co.uk). Since 2014 he has been Project Officer with the award-winning Castle Loch Lochmaben Community Trust, a Site of Scientific Interest, Ramsar Site and Special Protected Area of national and international importance for its birdlife. He has also run Moffat Community Nature Reserve and continues to work as Community Development Officer for the parish of Kirkmichael near Dumfries, as well as helping to run the River Annan Trust. He is an avid naturalist with a particular fascination for butterflies and, along with getting his hands dirty with practical habitat work out in the field, he enjoys inspiring the next generation with a passion for the outdoors and protecting its wildlife. He likes nothing better than donning his walking boots and uncovering those hidden corners we all dream about.
Summary
Slow Dumfries and Galloway Guide - Holiday advice and tourist information covering walking, wildlife, birdwatching, accommodation, restaurants, castles, distilleries, breweries, food and festivals. Also features Robert Burns, Moffat, Langholm, Gretna Green, Dumfries, Thornhill, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Stranraer and Mull of Galloway.
Foreword
. The only full-blown guide to Dumfries and Galloway
. Written by resident experts who are increasingly well known across the region
. Visitor numbers (and spend) in the region are increasing, and almost 80% of trips are for holiday
About Bradt Travel Guides
. Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print
. WINNER of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2018 and 2019
. Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years
. Each new Bradt guide is backed by a dedicated press and social media campaign
