The beautiful weather has prompted me to come to Kirkcudbright. Beyond Dumfries everything was new to me, so I travelled with a sense of trepidation as well as excitement. Kirkcudbright is lovely, and I’m glad I’m visiting out of season. I arrived early enough to have time to walk around St Mary’s Isle (actually a dewdrop of a peninsula) – pleasant but unexciting and I’ve seen my first bluebells.

I can see that walking is not going to be easy here – which sounds silly when you consider Scotland’s right to roam. The problem is that I want a route – not a vast expanse to wander across ENE until grid ref such-and-such then NNE for a further mile. Basically I want public footpaths! Tomorrow I intend catching the bus to Dundrennan, so walking back to Kirkcudbright will be interesting.

I started re-reading Five Red Herrings over dinner.