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Browsing Posts in Ayrshire

 This evening, I am focusing on Ardrossan, a sizeable town on the North Ayrshire coast and important ferry port.

Ardrossan is located on a promontory some 30 miles S.W. of Glasgow. Population is about 11,000. The name translates from its Gaelic origins as ‘cape of the little cape’.

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Sannox Bay, Isle of Arran, Scotland

This evening, I am focusing on the small village of Sannox, about seven miles north of Brodick on the east coast of the Isle of Arran.

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Firth of Clyde from Arran, Scotland

Currently Scotland/U.K. is enduring the coldest March for about 50 years. Arran, off the west of Scotland has been particularly hard hit with heavy snow contributing to an island-wide electricity outage. Intrigued by this I today paid a short visit to Arran on my bike intending to visit the areas most badly affected by snowfall but, unfortunately, the access road was closed so I ventured off up the west coast to Corrie and Sannox. Overall, I had a productive and satisfying day encountering:

Read more on Photograph Isle of Arran, Photograph Scotland…