{"id":111710,"date":"2019-10-18T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-dumfries-dumfries-galloway-could-anywhere-be-more-scottish\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T23:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:04:21","slug":"lets-move-to-dumfries-dumfries-galloway-could-anywhere-be-more-scottish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-dumfries-dumfries-galloway-could-anywhere-be-more-scottish\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway: could anywhere be more Scottish?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s full of pinnacles, crow-stepped gables and baronial turrets as if Disney\u2019s imagineers had sketched it themselvesWhat\u2019s going for it? In the \u2013 almost \u2013 words of Chandler from Friends: \u201cCould anywhere be more Scottish?\u201d Don\u2019t @ me. Don\u2019t write in. Here\u2019s my pitch, hear me out. Dumfries was the home of Robert Burns. Back of the net. You can pay your respects at his statue opposite Nationwide Building Society, at his little sandstone house, or in person at his mausoleum in St Michael\u2019s churchyard. Second: its warm red stone streets are chock-full of pinnacles, crow-stepped gables and baronial turrets, as if Disney\u2019s imagineers had sketched it themselves. Third: in the late 13th century William Wallace and the townsfolk saw off the invading English here. Fourth: soon after, Robert the Bruce began his campaign for independence in Dumfries (and, at Bannockburn, won). Fifth: the remarkable, romantic hinterland \u2013 the red kites and pine forests of the Galloway hills, the ruined castles and abbeys of the Nith estuary, the white sands of the Solway coast \u2013 could turn Alf Garnett Hibernian. I could go on.The case against A tad off the beaten track these days. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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