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Dumfries and Galloway


The River Sark, which is the border between England and Scotland. The sign explains that the bridge was designed by Thomas Telford in 1814, and widened in 2004. It al... I suppose I should have expected to see a bride in Gretna Green on a Saturday. Gretna Green. This was the route of the old A74 dual carriageway. I'm hoping to follow it most of the way to Glasg... Ecclefechan. The village hall, formerly a church, looks like it's missing a large window. This is my hotel in Ecclefechan. The reviews say to ignore how run-down it looks on the outside. App... The road's absurdly width hints at its history as the main coach road to Glasgow. Apparently there u... My room. I knew my room or tonight would have a bath because I paid extra for it. I didn't expect it to be th... The view from my window is better than last night. This time I get to see two bell towers. In the hotel. From a few things that people said, I correctly got the impression that there would be a long wait f... That's where my bike will be tonight. The composition of a fried breakfast has changed now that I'm in Scotland. This one includes haggis,... This isn't your normal toilet wall graffiti. Out of the shot just next to where I'm standing is an o... A statue of Thomas Carlyle. Near here, I was stopped by an elderly man who was wearing a hat saying ... Scenery. The memorial garden in Lockerbie marking the place in a residential street where most of the fuselag... Lockerbie. Lockerbie. Again, it looks like something's missing. On some sections of this road, there is a sort of bike lane where the northbound carriageway used to... A stone celebrating the opening of the A74(M) motorway in 1995. Scenery. The village of Beattock. Beattock. There is some sort of sports even or exercise class going on in a field nearby. I didn't s... About halfway up Beattock hill. A partially deforested hill.