Driving in Dumfries & Galloway.

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Sat 27 Sep 2008 22:38
Driving in Dumfries & Galloway. - Tron
This is an experience that is not to be missed.

It starts once you get a few miles West of Dumfries on the A75...

...it is like going back in time.

Bad drivers? Just be ready to give way to anything on the roads around you.

As for when you actually get in to Galloway - this is a whole new driving experience to behold in itself!

Speed minus is a serious understatement - no one is in a hurry to get anywhere.

Wigtown we saw not only double but even triple parking with people just stopping their vehicles (anywhere) to talk to people and even on on A roads as they pass each other, with little or no consideration for anything or one else around - they pull up, park, turn, pull out in front of you, u turn (even tractors....) with no form or warning or use of indicators and in 7 days, 7 whole days we saw one solitary police man, in his little Skoda car - and he was directing traffic in and around the meat market at Newton Stewart!

Throwing car doors open is a real speciality though - watch for this one!

B class roads are so pot holed the only vehicle that can safely use them are tractors - and if you think Cornwall/Wales/Norfolk or anywhere else for that matter was bad for farm vehicles - most people with access to these vehicles - use such as every day vehicles and we even saw 1 x JCB fastrack parked up in Morissons in Stranraer!

It is a lovely part if the UK to visit though and the people, heavens knows how some have a drivers licence mind you - are absolutely warming as welcoming as could be.

Edited by Tron on 27/09/2008 at 22:42

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Sat 27 Sep 2008 22:55
Driving in Dumfries & Galloway. - Alby Back
Used to use that road a lot to and from the Belfast ferry. Rare to see a cop car but watch out around Castle Douglas. I was once "making good progress" in convoy with an R32 Golf and a Sierra Cosworth on my way home from an Irish trip very late at night and was overtaken ( eventually ;-).....) by the Cosworth. Glad he did that because about 5 miles later I passed him stopped in a lay by having a chat with the local traffic cops..........


Whistles innocently and tunelessly and drives by at 59.9 mph.............

Edited by Humph Backbridge on 27/09/2008 at 22:56

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