Castle Cary Holiday Park – Dumfries and Galloway.

Tuesday 18th June 2024.

This morning we drove the short distance to Larne where we were catching the ferry to Cairnryan in Scotland a short 2 hour crossing. We met up again with Adrian and his wife the Dutch couple we met in Bushmills and we chatted to them during the crossing.

Michelle had identified for us a small site a short way after Newton Stewart as tonight’s stopover, however it’s entrance was a narrow drive on the right directly off the A74 and in the busy traffic I didn’t see the entrance and missed the turning. We then saw on our left a sign for a camp site so I pulled in. It turned out this site is enormous and had lots of pitches available so we decided to splash out and stay the night.

Castle Cary Holiday Park is situated outside the village of Creetown in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway. It is a scenic lakeside park set around a Scottish Baronial style castle dating from around 1580, part of the castle has been converted into The Lairds Inn.

It’s a very large site on an enormous acreage with static caravans, wooden lodges, a large amount of pitches for tourers and a large camping field, as I write this I can see at least twenty rabbits a short distance from the van and a large deer walked past us earlier.

A little research online showed that The Lairds Inn had a good menu so we had a wander up and enjoyed an evening meal and drink.

Tonight’s blog will be the last from this trip of 29 out of 31 days away, tomorrow we will be covering a large distance on our journey home down the A75 and M6. We are having a stopover part way at the two van aire that is the driveway of motorhome buddies Alison and Peter. Services are available and the hospitality superb.We will then arrive home on Thursday.