The Ayrshire Coast Epic voyages, Scottish legends and hidden treasure – discover the magic of the coast of Ayrshire, south of Glasgow

BRACKEN BAY promontory. Dunure has great The final scene of Season One was views looking towards Ailsa Craig filmed near the seaside town of Ayr. and across to the mountainous Isle With a curving sandy beach, narrow of Arran. The cliffs here were also waterfalls cascading from the clifftops used for the scene where Claire and and views of Arran, Bracken Bay Jamie watch young Ian swim out is a wild place. After the gruelling to the island and have an intense events at Wentworth Prison, Jamie conversation among the windswept and Claire escape to France by boat gorse bushes. The local harbour, and they say goodbye to some of 10 minutes’ walk away, became the the season’s regular characters. The port where Jamie and Claire meet ABOVE familiar ‘Skye Boat Song’ theme plays Jared again and get on board a ship Jamie and Claire as they set sail to France on pipes as they row past green cliffs. bound for Jamaica. In the background in the closing scenes is the distinctive round tower on the of Series One of DUNURE CASTLE AND end of the quay. Outlander HARBOUR RIGHT The ruined castle on ‘Silkies’ Island’ BURNS MUSEUM The ruin of Dunure that Jamie swims out to in Season ‘Braw’, ‘broch’, ‘laird’, ‘ken’, ‘dinna Castle on the Ayrshire coast, used to film Three, looking for Claire, is actually fash’ … Diana Gabaldon often scenes at Silkies’ at Dunure on a picturesque rocky uses Scots words in the Outlander Island in Outlander

38 novels and refers to poems by the old ruined church, which appear in 18th-century Scottish poet, Robert the narrative poem ‘Tam o’Shanter’. Burns – often regarded as Scotland’s After all that exploring, you can national bard. It is a line by Burns refuel at the museum café, perhaps that enables Claire to discover that with a ploughman’s lunch (local Jamie is still alive in 1765. Roger cheese and Ayrshire ham with bread, recognises a line that Claire quoted pickle and salad) to celebrate the to Jamie (‘Freedom an’ whisky gang Ploughman Poet. thegither!’) and points out that did you ‘Robert Burns was only six years Hunterston House in West Kilbride, know? old in 1765’. The Robert Burns northern Ayrshire, is an impressive museum in the village of Alloway private mansion that has become a Jamie and Claire’s includes the thatched cottage where bit of a movie star recently. It was final scene in Season the poet was born and a series of used for the inside of Frank and One, took place on interactive displays dedicated to his Claire’s B&B in Season One and for board the Christabel, life and work, with labels in Scots the Reverend Wakefield’s vicarage a real historical boat. and English. in Season Three of Outlander. The The last, aerial shot exterior shots are of a smaller house, as they sail out to sea Don’t miss Alloway’s other Burns- but the action cuts to Roger and was taken from related sights: an impressive 19th- Brianna, putting together a timeline a helicopter. century monument in landscaped in the well-furnished library, and they gardens, the medieval Brig o’Doon have their first kiss in front of one of spanning the river nearby and the Hunterston’s open fires.

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