Scotland: Day 3 Visiting Stranraer

Wednesday 3rd November 2021

The photos have ended up in a bit of a muddled order and it seems to take age to try to re-jiggle them in the right places, so will leave them muddled...But these were the photos from our third and final full day in Scotland. 

We enjoyed the hot tub on a couple of occasions and on this occasion, Miss T joined us too. 

We'd headed to the actual town of Stranraer in the morning and then had a look around the farm in the afternoon.  

Very close by to where we were staying in Dunragit, are Glenwhan Gardens. We never found time to visit there properly despite it being so close by but it has great reviews on Tripadvisor and has stunning views and a tea room, so next time we head to Scotland, we will be visiting! 

And these were the piggies on the farm that we totally fell in love with. You could save your scraps of food to feed them with, which they very much enjoyed. 

Beautiful poppy display in Stranraer

Stunning coastline of Stranraer

We'd packed up another picnic that morning and headed to Stranraer. The coastline was stunning and though it was a windy day, the sun was shining. 

Though our little stay was much shorter than we would have liked (we had existing commitments to get home for so couldn't extend our stay), we really tried to make the most of it and we realised just how much we had needed a little break away after being at home for so long. 

There is only one regret that I live with about our trip to Scotland. On the Wednesday night, we started seeing tweets about the northern lights being visible from various places in Scotland. There were even people posting photos of seeing the northern lights from as far south as York and Norfolk in England! Just mind blowing. 

We checked the website that shows the chance of spotting the northern lights from the UK and sure enough it was on the highest alert. Interestingly it had also been on high alert on Sunday night when we had travelled through the night to get to Scotland. It made me think back to when I spotted a green hue in the distance and assumed it was light pollution coming from a town but that MAY well have been the northern lights I had seen without even realising it. 

The kids were in bed and we knew that we had an incredibly long drive home the next day so the sensible part of our brains took control and made sure we got to bed instead of waking the kids up to go for a drive in the hope of spotting the northern lights. 

The next morning, I woke up with total regret about this as it dawned on me just how much of a rare opportunity it was for us to have been in Scotland AND for there to have been a rare high alert of spotting the aurora borealis. It is on my bucket list to see it so I very much hope I will get another opportunity! 

We had a reasonably good journey home on Thursday with one bit of traffic hold up but generally good going for most the journey and we definitely want to head back to Scotland again and stay longer and visit more of Scotland. 

We are truly grateful to Laura at The House of Holidays and the property owners of The Coo Shed in Dunragit for such a wonderful stay. It is somewhere that we would wholeheartedly recommend and very much want to visit again. 

We'll leave you with a little video of the piggies - aren't they just adorable!!!