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Old Jan 5, 2011 | 9:50 am
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Originally Posted by Zamoyska
The only Ayrshire port is Troon. Glasgow to Troon is an inland freeway the entire way, not particularly pretty. Once you get down past Ayr in South Ayrshire [heading towards Stranraer/Cairnryan ports] it becomes coast looking over the water to assorted islands & then eventually N.Ireland in the distance.
Sorry, my bad - yes one in Ayrshire and the other two in Dumfries & Galloway or whatever they are calling that part of the country these days. Must be my East Coast bias - I tend to lump the whole coast south of Glasgow as "Ayrshire".
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