Small town on a Sunday

Today I left the Ibis after a quick breakfast and walked to the bus station.  I talked to a young woman from Michigan who is just starting school to get her MFA at Glasgow School of Arts. She was joining 20 other students to do a hike in the Loch Lomond area. 

The bus was full until the GSA students got off. Then I was near two annoying hyper 12 (or maybe 13) year old boys with no parental supervision going all the way to Campbeltown,  of course. And like so many, they had to take 4 seats for their fun.

But the scenery was gorgeous (except for some clear cut areas)! It doesn't hurt that it was a sunny day, still no rain by 3pm!


Campbeltown is very quiet on a Sunday and only a couple of restaurants are open for lunch. After lunch, I walked and found the Linda McCartney statue and garden, but the gate was locked. Paul McCartney bought land on Kintyre but was an absentee landlord after Linda died from breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.





The fine medieval carving, with Celtic designs, dates from around 1380. The cross was erected at a church at Kilkivan before being moved to Campbeltown after the Reformation.

As much as I'm glad I'm not stuck here on that canceled 6-day housesit, it seems very soon to leave, tomorrow at 7:00am. I can't even take advantage of the breakfast that is included (probably black pudding, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms). I tasted black pudding and it wasn't awful; haggis definitely was!

To top off my day, I had chicken corn soup and a new taste sensation, scampi fries. Not bad!

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