Beach walk, Irvine

 

robot!

If you're doing plenty of riding...in other words most days...there comes a time when you need to visit the local cycle emporium...there are three to choose from! (in a town of about 30,000 folk)

We like Bike Fit, and met this marvellous fellow..a robot lamp. Don't think he moves much.

He is made from bike parts.

The Pirate got a professional trim from a visiting hairdresser..now his helmet fits his head!

sculpture and street art

 Apparently in Kimarnock there is a river underneath King Street.....hence the divers.....

 New shopping centre...

 and its Victorian inspiration

 Street art....

Dumfries and back

 Gracefields Arts Centre.     Galleries Outside and In!!

 Moniaive for a late lunch, and a little walk..up a little hill....

 a steep little hill...and said hello to a horse..

 and saw interesting dressed stone gateposts, all with bench marks...

 looking back down on Moniaive, with the way home straight up the valley ahead

 Say no more!!   It is also the site of the oldest pub in Scotland, possibly (The George) and the Green Tearoom.

and back home via Carsphairn, last village in Dumfries and Galloway before you return to Ayrshire.   Notable for its free public toilets, which you find in hardly any of Ayrshire's villages!!