The Top 10 Reasons to Walk the Whithorn Way Next Time You’re Thinking Camino

#1.  Scottish breakfasts

#2   if you speak English, they speak the same language. Sort of.

#3   place names – like the Waters of Luce – that sound like they come from The Princess Bride

#4   ‘tatties and ‘neeps

#5   miles and miles of coastal paths

#6   no need to fight for space on the trail or in albergues

#7   haggis is less disgusting than pulpo

#8   a saint who may have known the real King Arthur and St Patrick

#9   currags, castles, cairns, and caves (and neolithic standing stones)

#10   real Scottish ales

And lots more: kissing-gates on the edges of cliffs, Norse-Scots stone crosses, a destination where on a clear day you can see Ireland, England, and the Isle of Man, Arts & Crafts art and architecture, scones with jam, the moors, you’re more likely to be soaked in cold rain than baked by unending heat,

Robbie Burns, and…I didn’t even mention A.D. Rattray’s Whiskey Experience in Kirkoswald!