Cheap industrial bread and supermarket own-brand jam, nearly all sugar and additives. Tea bags and hot water. I wasn't expecting much for breakfast at the hostel. But, for a few pounds extra (breakfast was an add-on extra when I booked), I was pleasantly surprised to see a buffet. 

The few other guests and I sat around a table and got stuck into bread, Emmental cheese and ham, bowls of cornflakes and granola. Cake and pastries. Yogurt and fruit. There was reasonable good coffee too. 

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We may have gone on eating and not have spoken if it weren't for a sixty year old man from Leeds of south Asian origin, very talkative and general nice guy who sat next me. "How many languages do you speak" he asks me, one of the introductory questions he would go on to ask the young Romanian man opposite and the French couple sat at the other side of the table. 

I made it to Glasgow Central around 09.20, bought a ticket and caught the 09.30 to Ayr. No need to book a bike place. There was a place without seats in the last carriage with room for six bikes while for this trip there is only one other bike plus the Kona.

There was a change in Ayr for a train to Stranraer, but it wasn't until 11.36 and it was only 10.20, so I had over an hour to kill in which I when for a walkabout and having been here on quite a few times previously I headed for a Greggs wherein I bought a tuna sandwich and tea, then sat on a bench on the high street eating and enjoying the warm sunshine.

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Bill ShaneyfeltSome kind of moth... possibly knot grass. Too dark and not enough body to be sure though.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122465-Acronictinae/browse_photos?term_id=1&term_value_id=6&place_id=6718
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Sean KaneHi Bill. Nice to see you here on Cycleblaze.
Thanks as always for trying to identifying my nature photos.
Sean
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And here my notes run out and it has gone 4 weeks since I arrived back. The weather lately has been a bit unsettled with many days of rain. I am watching the long range forecast daily for a window of a couple of weeks of fine weather when I hope to return to Scotland and continue to document it here. So until then, thanks for following along on this trip.