Dumfries & Galloway – an Unspoiled Paradise

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Travel story: Dumfries & Galloway – an Unspoiled Paradise

Located in the most southwesterly arm of the Scottish mainland, Dumfries and Galloway are full of surprises even to a Scottish lassie like myself who spent her childhood in Glasgow, a two-hour toss of the caber to the north. I had always thought Christianity was introduced to Scotland by St. Columba via the isle of Iona. Not so. St. Ninian beat him to it when he arrived in Whithorn in 397. Renown poet and bard, Robert Burns did not spend most of his life in Ayrshire, but in Dumfries. The... More