Our search for a lunch spot found us in the small town of Isle of Whithorn on the South-West coast of Scotland. We parked up near the harbour and ate our sandwiches as the grey clouds massed around us, but they didn’t unload, thankfully!
On the drive in we’d noticed signs pointing to Saint Ninian’s Chapel and Cave. We didn’t fancy the cave, but the chapel looked like it might be interesting, and we wanted to make the most of our Historic Scotland membership while we’re here so we jumped back in the car and followed the road further into town to find the chapel.
We found the chapel at the end of harbour but we couldn’t find anyway too get to it, so we settled for viewing it from the surrounding fields. The view out across the bay was worthwhile so we climbed a nearby hill to a lookout which turned out to be a memorial to a group of sailors who drowned off the coast.
The day’s earlier bad weather was looking like making a return, so we returned to the car to continue the journey the Portpatrick.
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