The Kintyre Forum

As it's a new year i am looking forward to going back up (or down) to Kintyre and in particular Southend. Get my caravan open and enjoy a holiday in April. As i sit here in Glasgow on a Saturday afternoon i think what do i miss most when i've not been there for several months. So here goes-

1.The beach.
2.Walking with my family and dog over the dunes and the coast road to Carskey.
3.The veiw from my caravan (over to Antrim).
4.The locals in the Argyll pub.
5.The locals in the village.
6.The rolling green hills.
7.The sound of the sea at night and in the morning.
8.Soup and a bacon roll from Mcilchers (spelled wrongly??)
9.A day in Campbeltown.
10.Golf at Dunaverty.
11.Playing Monopoly and Scrabble with the kids when it's raining.
12.Acting like a kid again trying to get into the cold sea on a warm sunny day.

Bobh.You have just convinced me that I should book another holiday there!Cheers!

Bobh wrote:8.Soup and a bacon roll from Mcilchers (spelled wrongly??)

McIlchere is the Correct spelling.
You were close, but not close enough

It's only been four months but already I'm missing Carradale beach, our old house, and all the birds we used to get in the garden.

We have just booked the cottage for a couple of weeks in May, so looking forward to being back in Camobeltown....

all of the above, mostly the family and the general population .be there soon!!!

Beachcomber wrote:It's only been four months but already I'm missing Carradale beach, our old house, and all the birds we used to get in the garden.

Did Mrs Beachcomber object to all these birds that you had in the garden?

-Machrihanish
-Lossit farm house...would really love to live there again someday
-Walking the beaches with my family & our dog (& on many of those walks, we were accompanied by a very sweet & knowledgeable gentleman from the village, whom we still think of today )
-exploring the hills around our house with my brother.
-watching farmer Archie birth & sheer sheep
-walks through the town & around the loch. I miss the quaintness of it & it's shops.
-our many road trips throughout Scotland
-very friendly locals!
-childhood friends who made me/us feel welcome

The view of Gigha, Isla and Jura when we opened the caravan curtains in the morning.

numberplease wrote:The view of Gigha, Isla and Jura when we opened the caravan curtains in the morning.

That must have been some storm in Boston!

Ha-ha Roger! Perhaps I should have elaborated a little, and made it clear that the caravan was at Muasdale at the time

Just thought I'd try post an Picture
Its a Picture of the Beach last summer, so Its ok

Where is that Nelson?

It is the Beach at Killegruer Caravan Site, It is just past Bellochantuy Hotel.

( Not the small Caravan park right next to it. The next one further along )