Stevo07 wrote:bornlucky1 wrote:Was in Scotland last week reliving my youth, took the M74 cut off at Bigger, Bigger to lanark road, back onto the ayr road through Douglas - muirkirk - Stratheven - ayr - east kilbride - hamilton. Next day did a bit around edinburgh, then back to Lanark via the Lang Whang - carwath.
MAkes me wish i still lived there, buzzing about Forth/shotts/Headless cross/climpy in the evening with just me and my motor and no-one to annoy me/no coppers to stop me and no-one to hurt other than hedges if things go wrong, you take this stuff for granted up there :bigthumb:
I forgot how cold it gets though
so you went from Muirkirk to Strathaven then all the way back down to Ayr and back up?
Yep, my dad lives five minutes from strathavon on a farmhouse on Newhousemill road, the b-road that goes between Hamilton and E-kilbride, (the one with the squeezy bridge if you know the area), we came from muirkirk into strathavon - simply because its my favourite road ever, came into strathavon on the left hand side of where the jet garage used to be, then on the way back went back through strathavon again but this time headed on the right fork towards ayr to see some friends for dinner, then back to hamilton via e.k on that new A77 road.
Was a good drive, you simply dont get roads like those down in the area unless you go to the lakes and those are just clogged with tourists... [smilie=karls_thumb.gif]
Edit, on the way in we came the B743 and on the way out the A71 if that makes sense to you.