Scotland: Dumfries to Creetown

Day 22
Distance- 92km (980)
Weather- sunshine
Highlights- entering the Galloway forest, Cream of Galloway icecream
Lowlights- having to pass up wild camping due to interview in the morning
Accommodation- Creetown campsite

After a great nights sleep in a real bed, we spent the morning making phone calls and researching the internet, in an attempt to sort out a bunch of stuff. We headed off at about 10am, an to no surprise, got slightly lost leaving town, which tends to be a readily occurring and easily done thing for us (wait until we get to Europe). Lunch was had at Castle of Douglas, where the lady at the information centre told us which was the best bakery and Pete set off to find some food, returning with a great rhubarb pie, and bread of course. The afternoon snack was had at the definite highlight of the day, a stop at the 'Cream of Galloway' ice cream factory, fantastic. Bridgette had a double with banoffe and rum'n'rasin, and Pete had a triple with honeycomb crunch, mango and lemon curd. One of he best ice creams that we have had, and well worth the stop.
As usual some of the best riding was saved till last as we headed high across a plateau through a wooded area behind the coast. This was followed by a 8Km down hill into Creetown, taking only 15 minutes. The only slight panic on the way as we forgot to get petrol for the stove, but no worries in the end. We found a funny little campsite 'by the seas side' but with a murky river and an A road between (false advertising). A great mountain of dhal and rice for dinner with chapattis for dinner, and as usual the mountain was reduced to a mole hill in no time between the three of us. We probably would have wild camped but needed phone reception for the interview with ABC Radio National in the morning.