Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Planning and starting our trip to Scotland

We had been doing some more practice sessions at our local park and travelling to Longford Park, Manchester to play the course after returning from our last trip. We had also been thinking about what our next Disc Golf trip might look like. It was now the beginning of August and the weather forecast was looking good, so we decided we would travel north.

Scotland has always been a favourite place of mine to visit. I've been going there since the 1970's and in more recent years have been touring various locations with Catriona in our motorhome, sightseeing and playing ball golf along the way. We've never been interested in playing the expensive, highly manicured fairways of some of the most famous courses in Scotland, but found and played those little gems like Askernish Golf Course on South Uist.


Or Asta Golf Course, the most northerly 9 Hole course in the UK on Mainland, Shetland Islands.


I haven't been able to play ball golf since February 2019 and that is why we decided we would organise a trip to take in some of Scotlands Disc Golf Courses, as we are both so addicted to this sport now, much more so than we ever were to ball golf.

We planned on 11 nights away. Our route would take in a couple of nights near Alnwick, to catch up with some friends we hadn't seen for some time due to covid restrictions, and this would break the nearly 5hrs journey to the first planned disc golf course. Then over the border into Scotland to take in our first course near Dunbar for 3 nights, onwards for a little rest for a couple of nights along the side of Loch Lomond before heading to Glasgow. Campsites booked in all 4 locations and we hit the road on August 18th.

Our friends were working during the day so we spent our time riding around the area on our bikes exploring, particularly along the coast. Just happened to have a couple of discs in our rucksack, only because we knew there was a lovely beach nearby. 


And with a castle in the distance you just have to let fly.....


As usual our activities attracted attention from a few women out walking their dogs. They could tell we weren't just throwing a frisbee on the beach and we spent a while explaining about disc golf and the discs, and that we were heading to play some courses in Scotland. 

It was so good to catch up with our friends but it was time to move on and head for our first play on a Scottish course. We were heading for Dunbar to play Reboot Disc Golf and in particular a course called Bluebell Woods, which in the Springtime is awash in a sea of blue. We wouldn't see this this time, so that will be for a future trip but here's a taster....

So come with me to Bluebell Woods, which will be my next instalment and I'll tell you all about our visit and play.

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