Yesterday Eileen took us over to the 'Robert Burns Birthplace Museum' in Alloway where we parked the car and proceeded along a track and down on to the cycle path that follows the tree-lined track bed of the old Ayr - Turnberry railway line which closed in 1968. You start the walk by entering a couple of tunnels which could take a bit of inspiration from a similar project over in Edinburgh as these are only lined by graffiti.
It takes you to a bridge over the River Doon, from where I took the first photo (above) from the bridge looking back towards the old 'Brig O' Doon' which was built in the 15th century and features in the last verse of Burns' epic poem 'Tam O'Shanter'.
The treelined path takes you all the way over to the ruins of Greenan Castle a former 16th-century tower house that sits on the high ground overlooking the coastline.
We had intended to walk back through the parks of Belleisle and Rozelle but rain (no surprise there) meant we headed straight back to our starting point passing this homage, a 2m tall mouse, to Burns' poem 'To a Mouse' not quite the 'wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie' he referred to.
We must have a look around that area sometime soon. Love the mouse...
ReplyDelete