Steve and I travelled to England to visit our family in Yorkshire and further south to visit friends near London. On the way we stopped at Dumfries in the rain to visit the Station Hotel. We liked the Manager who gave me a personal tour round the hotel, which has good sized bedrooms and a nice restuarant and lounge area. It really is beside the station where you can take trains north to Glasgow, west to Stranraer or south to Carlisle. From here you can also walk into town. It is a very nice small town with a good range of shops and steeped in history. After the hotel we visited the Globe Inn which was built in 1610 and was a favourite haunt of Burns. The first Burns Supper was held here in 1819. I have arranged for us to tour the Inn and have an informal Burns Supper including haggis, neeps (turnips) and potatoes accompanied with poems of Burns including "to a Haggis". We will also enjoy accordian music and more. The manager of the Globe Inn is a Burns enthusiast as are the other staff members of the Globe. She would like to have Burns Supper at the Globe every week during this Homecoming Year and is looking forward to welcoming the Clan MacDuff. Anyone who would like to recite a Burns poem or sing a Burns song will be warmly welcomed, but it is not compulsory!
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Dumfries of Robert Burns
Steve and I travelled to England to visit our family in Yorkshire and further south to visit friends near London. On the way we stopped at Dumfries in the rain to visit the Station Hotel. We liked the Manager who gave me a personal tour round the hotel, which has good sized bedrooms and a nice restuarant and lounge area. It really is beside the station where you can take trains north to Glasgow, west to Stranraer or south to Carlisle. From here you can also walk into town. It is a very nice small town with a good range of shops and steeped in history. After the hotel we visited the Globe Inn which was built in 1610 and was a favourite haunt of Burns. The first Burns Supper was held here in 1819. I have arranged for us to tour the Inn and have an informal Burns Supper including haggis, neeps (turnips) and potatoes accompanied with poems of Burns including "to a Haggis". We will also enjoy accordian music and more. The manager of the Globe Inn is a Burns enthusiast as are the other staff members of the Globe. She would like to have Burns Supper at the Globe every week during this Homecoming Year and is looking forward to welcoming the Clan MacDuff. Anyone who would like to recite a Burns poem or sing a Burns song will be warmly welcomed, but it is not compulsory!
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