Half-way up a cliff in the deep and abrupt canyon of the Alzou stream, the spectacular setting of ROCAMADOUR is hard to beat; the town itself must have been beautiful once, too, but for centuries now it has been inundated by religious pilgrims...
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Most folk come to CASTLE DOUGLAS ( ), eighteen miles southwest of Dumfries, simply in order to visit the nearby attractions of Threave Garden and Castle. The man responsible for the town's late eighteenth-century grid-plan streets...
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The next town along the C721 is FERRERIES , an appealing little place, no more than a village really. There's little to detain you here, though one definite plus is the Vimpi bar on the plaza at the entrance to town, which serves...
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