Robert Burns Tour Alloway

Join us on our tour to Alloway. We visit the cottage built by the bard’s father, William Burnes in 1757, and where he was born on the 25th January 1759.

And we shall eat Haggis Neaps & Tatties on that day ever more! Burns suppers are world renowned but where would we be at New Year or Hogmannay as we Scots say without Auld Lang Syne, arguably his best work.

We don’t claim to be experts on the life and works of Rabbie Burns, but we can take you to Alloway near Ayr and let you see the cottage where he was born and visit the Burns National Heritage Park and the Tam O’Shanter Experience.

Robert’s family was not wealthy, but his father believed in Education and worked hard to provide for his family. William Burnes persuaded the local townsfolk to put up the money to pay for a teacher for their children. Robert flourished at the book learning, when he was 18 however, his family moved and he had to turn his hand to farming.
He had a varied career, ploughman, poet and excise man, his womanizing though is legendary and we have many poems and songs thanks to his love of the ladies.

Find out more about his life and loves, who was the inspiration for “Ae fond kiss” a “Red Red Rose” and others.

It’s quite a long trip and we will make a short coffee stop at a halfway point there and back. We should arrive at the Cottage at about 11.30 depending on the pick-up point. There is no need to get back on the bus until its time for us to depart as all the sights are within walking distance.

The Audio visual display at the Tam O’Shanter Experience is well worth viewing.