Ye passengers who e'er ye are
As ye pass on this way
Disturb ye not this small respect
That's paid to sailor's clay.
The best part of the walk was when we walked up a hill between Lendalfoot and Girvan which got us away from the coastal road and had lovely sea views. We could see Northern Ireland, Ailsa Craig and the Mull of Kintyre. We could see up the coast to Turnberry lighthouse and Hunterston Point. And as I have mentioned in the blog title we noticed - not for the first time - that gorse smells quite strongly of coconuts - and a wee bit of peach too. Talking of peach, I had a delicious peach smoothie at the Pebbles Bistro outside Lendalfoot, this was a nice treat as we don't often pass cafes in the course of our walks. However the walk did have its drawbacks. The beaches that we walked along varied in gravel / sand content and some of them were very trudgy! We seemed to spend forever walking along the beach at Ballantrae. And there was quite a lot of walking along the verge of the road which was noisy and for quite a while we had to walk behind the crash barrier. The quality of beach walking improved towards the end of our walk although by that time I was quite tired. We jumped on a bus from Girvan back to Ballantrae and it was amazing to see how far we had walked. James was master of restraint during the walk after our (brief) falling out on Monday; I could tell that he was trying very hard not to be impatient at my speed. Only once did he let out a groan (when I lay down unexpectedly beside the path out of exhaustion) and he quickly stifled it and encouraged me to keep going. By the time we got back to the car I was feeling very jolly, both James and I had pink faces from the sunshine.
I phoned ahead to ask Davie to run a bath for me and James got us a Chinese meal and we all watched a film called Contagion about a virus which kills millions. Despite being studded with top stars, and interesting to watch, the plot was very unlikely. It had some good ideas though, and was well-structured, because we didn't find out until the very end of the film where the virus had originated. This turned out to be a bat in China (!) which bit a pig, and then the pig was served up as a roast dinner to the first human to catch the virus. A relaxing end to a good day. I also want to mention that I am very pleased with Ally just now. He is being very pleasant to me and Davie (he is always pleasant to James and Jamie) and he invited David to go to the cinema with him and his friends today.
