Moniaive Travel Guide

 nickandchris Says:  Thornhill is a surprisingly large town,with wide open streets and is sited on the A76 trunk road from Dumfries to Glasgow. It was a planned village, built in 1714 for nearby Drumlanrig castle on the Queensbury Estate and to take advantage of the said new road that was being... 

 nickandchris Says:  Having stayed on this site some 15 years ago, we knew what to expect. We were not disappointed, a scenic site, in two parts, on the banks of Scaur Water with the only facilities being a tap and a chemical disposal point. No electricity. Bliss, what more could we want? There... 

 nickandchris Says:  We like to try and have a pub lunch while we are on holiday in the motorhome and Penpont was the obvious choice for us, being just down the road from the site.A blackboard outside advertised a take away service at a reasonable price and seemed a good opportunity for the... 

 nickandchris Says:  Despite it being cold, and the fact snow had fallen the day before, the sun was shining, on and off. It was a good photo opportunity so we decided to take the long way round to get to Nithsdale and travel the A702 /Dalveen Pass route. It was a good job we did and not left it... 

 nickandchris Says:  Andrew Goldsworthy is a modern sculptor/artist who uses natural materials, such as flowers, twigs, roots, stones, leaves, snow etc. etc. and often uses only his hands, no tools, in the making of his creations.The results are quite amazing and it's an exciting experience to... 

 nickandchris Says:  I only know this cemetery was just east of Thornhill, on a minor road by a farm called Greenhead.As we were on the bike, we stopped to have a wander round and were saddened to see how uprooted trees had destroyed walls and graves. An old ruin of a church had a yew tree...