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Buses to Kirkcudbright stop by the harbour car park, next to the tourist office (July & Aug Mon-Sat 9.30am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm; April-June, Sept & Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-4pm; tel 01557/330494), where you can get help finding accommodation . One of the best is 14 High St (tel 01557/330766, 14highstreet@kirkcudbright.co.uk ; £50-60), next door to Broughton House, with a garden overlooking the river, or Baytree House , at no. 110 (tel 01557/330824; £60-70), another Georgian house with comfortable rooms, good cooking, and a beautiful garden with sundeck. Cheaper B&B can be had from 1 Gordon Place (tel 01557/330472; £40-50), at the castle end of the High Street. The Silvercraigs caravan and campsite (tel 01557/330123; Easter to late Oct) is five or ten minutes' walk from the centre down St Mary's Street and Place, on a bluff overlooking town.

Kirkcudbright is strangely limited when it comes to restaurants . Top choice is the Auld Alliance , 5 Castle St (tel 01557/330569), a superior, if pricey, restaurant offering an imaginative mixture of French and Scottish cuisine. More reasonable is the Casa Mia , an Italo-Scottish restaurant within the Gordon House Hotel , 116 High St. Otherwise, there's the usual bar food at the Best-Western-run Selkirk Arms Hotel on the High Street, which boasts a large garden out the back. A stylish daytime café , Mulberries , is on St Cuthbert's Street. For a drink , the busy Masonic Arms , on Castle Street, pulls a reasonable pint.