Relaxing in the four hundred year old Globe Inn. Note that xmarker Pour1Malt is sitting in the actual chair on which the poet Robert Burns would have sat while he was in The Globe. Burns frequented the Globe during the years 1788 to 1796 when he lived at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries and later lived in the town as an exciseman. He is said to have had a love affair with Anna Park, daughter of the Landlord of the Globe.
Final pub of the night - The Waverley Bar
Saturday morning Gabrielle and I visited Caerlaverock Castle.
This castle was constructed from 1277 and was an important fortress against invasion from the English across the Solway Firth. After the Union of the Crowns the buildings around the inner courtyard were re-constructed in 1634 as a fine mansion for the Maxwell family, before being sacked by the Covenanters just six years later.
An Xmarks dandelion growing on the stonework of Caerlaverock Castle!
The South Range of the Castle once contained a Grand Hall.
A final view of Caerlaverock Castle from the south.
Exploring the foundations of the first Caerlaverock Castle, built about 1220 and replaced within less than a hundred years.
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