Allan, Davie, Ian, Johnny, Malcolm, Paul, Rex
Seven Ooters met at Rex’s for coffee on a morning which, weatherwise, could have gone either way i.e. lots of sunshine and few showers or vice versa. Thankfully the former was to prevail. Rex was with us because his wife was unwell and they couldn’t go to Italy. Davie was with us because his wife was unwell and needed a break from him. It was good to see Holly again!
It was 10.30 am before we started walking at Maidens and, as the walk has been recorded many times in the past, it is sufficient to say that the usual route was taken. On the way to Culzean Rex managed to slip on some stones covered in seaweed. Thankfully no serious damage was done and he was soon able to give Davie a masterclass on how to make the perfect fajitas. The trick is to put half a lime (or maybe the juice of half a lime) into the pan with some oil before adding the meat. Once we had explained to Davie what a lime was, he seemed to catch on before suggesting that if Uncle Ben didn’t say it, he wasn’t going to add it.
We didn’t stop at our usual coffee place on the clifftop but made our way to the café at Culzean where we partook of coffee and scones. Sad to say the scones were not as fresh as they looked although they were devoured just the same. Johnny collected all the small jam jars for future use so all you folk expecting a pot of gooseberry jam later on may well get less than you bargained for.
The walk from Culzean to our normal lunch spot was uneventful other than us having to get the waterproofs on for a shower that lasted about ten minutes.
Lunch having being taken we walked up the hill and progressed steadily to Dunure stopping briefly at the look-out tower. We made the car park at 1.55pm and were surprised how quickly we had done the walk considering the stops we had. This had been another grand walk in weather which had been kind to us.
FRT was taken at the Dunure Inn where the flavour of the day was ‘Jolly Beggars’ made by the Ayr Brewing Company.
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