St. Andrew's weekend in Dumfries

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:01 AM

Hello!
I was in Dumfries this weekend staying at Robertson (Pour1malt) & Emma's Ferintosh Guest House with my girlfriend Laura. Alex (cessna152towser) was staying there too and we headed to Caerlaverock Castle on the saturday and Dumfries town centre on sunday.
There was a small pub crawl on saturday and Alex and his friend met up with us later on. On sunday we met with John (EnglishBloke) and his lovely wife, friendly(, age-misleadingly looking!) son Tom and their bonnie wee daughter Tasmin!
I don't have any group shots of any of the days as I have a bulky slr that is a hassle to carry around! Robertson and Alex will have plenty and I see John's posted some from sunday!

Here's some pictures:

Myself and Alex at the Castle doorway:

Myseld and Laura on the second floor of the Castle, overlooking the moat:

Laura reading up in the info:

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:05 AM

We then headed up to the bird sancuary in what has become a bit of a swamp:

Alex was taking a picture of an interesting plant that flowers at this time of years - unlike most others:

There were little wooden planks that aided us... not enough though and we decided it would be difficult to walk up what was once a path to the sanctuary and headed back to the castle for lunch.

Alex's new avatar?:

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:07 AM

On sunday morning we checked out of Ferintosh and headed up to see if Burn's house was open. Sadly it's closed on sundays at this time of year but we got a few snaps along the street:

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:10 AM

For some reason I've ended up with 0 group photos and very few shots of people. Here's some of my "amateur photography" shots - if you want to call them that. That'd probably make great desktop backgroundsin full screen view... maybe Microsoft or Apple will put in an offer for them?

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:11 AM

And my favourite:

**andyfg** · 30th November 09, 05:12 AM

Lovely pics. Thanks!

**Paul** · 30th November 09, 05:24 AM

Later on the sunday we headed back to Dumfries town center to watch a couple of bands and then participate in a world record attempt at ther biggest Scottish Reel. We managed 721 people - and the previous record was 1.2k! It saddened me!

John took my camera to take a few pictures but the motion setting wasnt on and they were pretty blurry as we danced around. Thanks though John

Here's a couple of action shots:

We then headed to the Coach & Horses for a quick drink and a warm up from what must have been THE coldest day this year before heading down to watch the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and the Christmas lights being switched on:

Thanks to Robertson and Emma for owning a great guest house and for paying attention to the little things that make a great weekend away... and thanks to Alex for joining us on our trip, it was good to meet you! It was great meeting you and your family John and I hope we will meet some time soon!

**English Bloke** · 30th November 09, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Paul.

... John took my camera to take a few pictures but the motion setting wasnt on and they were pretty blurry as we danced around. Thanks though John

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Err... I did it on purpose... to capture the motion (hem,hem...) Otherwise it would just look like a lot of people standing on one leg...

**Deil the Yin** · 30th November 09, 06:31 AM

Great piccies, Paul. I especially like the one of you and your girl on the ramparts- it just looks really nice and gave me warm fuzzies.

Or maybe it's the bagpipe music I have playing? At any rate, I really enjoyed your pics. Hope yall had a grand time, though it looked cold as hell!!! Perfect whisky weather, eh wot?

Cheers,
Wesley