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Extract from the Alloway Travel Guides:
ALLOWAY
, formerly a small village but now on the outskirts of Ayr, is the birthplace of Robert Burns (1759-96), Scotland's national poet. The first port of call is the
Burns Cottage and Museum
(April-Oct daily 9am-6pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun noon-4pm; 2.80), the poet's birthplace, a low, whitewashed, thatched cottage where animals and people lived under the same roof. Much altered over the years, you can nevertheless gain an impression of what the place must have been like when Burns, the first of seven children, was born in the box bed in the only room in the house.
Ten minutes' walk down the...
read the whole Alloway Travel Guides...
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