Thursday, 2 March 2023

MANCHESTER FALSE FLAG - PART TWO


The above image is supposed to show Salman Abedi, the alleged Manchester Arena bomber.

The above image reminds us of a similar image which mysteriously appeared on the Facebook page of Alexandre Bissonnette, the alleged Quebec shooter.


This is Alexandre Bissonnette's Facebook AFTER it was interfered with.

We saw the Facebook page of Alexandre Bissonnette before it was interfered with.

The 'horror' images above were added after Alexandre Bissonnette had been detained.

The original Facebook pages showed innocent stuff.

Who has the power to alter the pages of someone's Facebook?

CIA, Mossad or Canadian intelligence services?



Above we see Matthew Bissonnette from Quebec who, as a child, was sexually abused.



Above we see Doug Ellis from Quebec who, as a child, was sexually abused.

Doug Ellis had trips to psychiatric wards, electroshock therapy and a period in Ontario's Millbrook Correctional Centre.

Doug Ellis died in 2015, at the age of 45, of complications from the medications he was on to treat his psychiatric illness.

Mother shares tale of her son's life, shattered by sexual abuse.

Murdered Manchester lad Abdul Wahab Hafidah

The 'Rochdale child sex abuse ring' involved under-age teenagers in Greater Manchester

One child abuse ring in Greater Manchester was led by the Satanist Michael Horgan, who was closely associated with the child abusing politician Cyril Smith, who has been linked to the security services.

There is a suspicion that certain security services organise the terrorism and the top child abuse rings.

KISSINGER AT BILDERBERG

The Manchester Arena attack, on 22 May 2017, is the work of the group who did the Norway attack, on 22 July 2011, and the John F Kennedy assassination, on 22 November 1963.

The Manchester Arena bomb was most likely set off by assets of the security services, using a remote control device.

Salman Abedi the 'bubbly, laid back lad' is most likely the 'patsy'.

Salman Abedi's barber says Salman was his 'normal' self when he came in recently for his regular haircut.

'He'd gossip, and tell jokes. He was more or less a laid back person,' the barber told ITV News.

'He didn't have a special character, he was just a bubbly person that always acted normal.

'He never came and spoke to me about something serious.'

Why did Mohamed Atta speak Hebrew? (Atta loved pork chops, cocaine, hookers)

The security services have assets in Manchester, 'including members of Salman Abedi's family'.

Members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who live in manchester have been used by MI5 and the CIA  for more than 20 years.

While Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG members were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe so that they could remove Gadaffi in Libya, and then join al-Qaeda groups in Syria.

Manchester attack: What did UK Prime Minister Theresa May know?

 
Only the very stupid Moslems do not know that Osama worked with the Jewish Mafia in the narcotics trade.

The CIA and its friends promote a 'Strategy of Tension'.


The CIA's original Operation Gladio used former Nazis to carry out acts of terrorism in Europe, so as to promote American power.

The CIA's Gladio B uses Moslems to promote the Pentagon agenda.

The Saudis help Trump, Kissinger and the CIA

Saudi money has helped finance 16 American mosques; four in Canada; and others in London, Madrid, Brussels and Geneva.


Saudi money is promoting extremist Islamic groups in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and elsewhere.

To understand the current 'terrorism' it is useful to understand Propaganda Due (P2), the secret Masonic lodge which carried out acts of terrorism in Italy and beyond.

P2 is linked to the CIA's Operation Gladio, and, P2 is linked to Henry Kissinger.

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According to historians, Gladio carried out false flag terror attacks, such as the Bologna train bombing in 1980 which killed 85 people.

According to the Italian Senate, after its investigation in 2000, the bombers were "men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence."

The Bologna Bombing of 1980 eventually led to a trial.

Members of the P2 lodge were found guilty of trying to cover up the involvement of their fascist friends.

Barbara Honnegar, author of 'October Surprise', believes that both Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger were key members of P2.



According to Barbara Honegger's 'October Surprise':

When the Italian police raided (P2 Lodge founder) Gelli's home in March 1981, it was Michael Ledeen who, at the instigation of Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger, offered to buy the list of 953 P2 members in an apparent attempt to keep it from becoming public.

Henry Kissinger had reportedly sent Ledeen to Italy to try to squash an investigation into his and Haig's involvement in the founding of P2.



"The lodge had among its members top journalists, top politicians, top industrialists, top military leaders and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services.

"In 1981, the activities of the P2 lodge were discovered by prosecutors while investigating banker Michele Sindona, the collapse of his bank and his ties to the Mafia.[14


The CIA wants to force its allies to follow the Pentagon's agenda?


Madrid

Just before the 2004 general election in Spain, the Madrid train bombing killed 191 people.

The government of Jose Maria Aznar, accused of a cover-up, fell from power.

Right - Belhaj, linked to the CIA. Centre - Al-Harati, linked to the CIA. Left - Paul Conroy, allegedly of MI6.

Abdel-Hakim Belhaj 'was one of the suspects involved in the Madrid train bombing of March 2004.'

This is according to Spain's Prime Minister at the time of the Madrid Train bombings Jose Maria Aznar.

December 2011 on CNBC

Abdel-Hakim Belhaj has been top the top man in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)

Madrid train bombing - the work of the security services? THE NATO LINK TO THE MADRID BOMBINGS / Madrid Bombs / Police linked to Madrid bombs? / The police and the Madrid Bombs

Some members of the LIFG live in Manchester and have been linked to the Manchester Arena attack.

Mahdi Al-Harati, of the LIFG, lived at one time in Manchester.

Al-Harati in Manchester

According to The Sunday World, Mahdi Al-Harati says that representatives of an American intelligence agency gave him a significant amount of money.

Madhi Al-Harati Irish Rebel


Anas Al-Libi was a top Al-Qaeda commander who lived in Manchester in the UK from 1995-2000.

In November 2007 Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the formal alliance/assimilation between Belhaj’s LIGF and Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) has been commanding the brigades fighting Assad in Syria

Land Destroyer

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The UK security services do not necessarily work for the people of the UK.


4 hours after the Manchester Arena bombing, UK officials appeared not to know who had carried out the attack.

4 hours after the Manchester Arena bombing, US officials were able to state that Salman Abedi had carried out the attack.

Manchester Bombing by Graham Vanbergen, / NDTV via the Washington Post.


Above, we see a photo of the Manchester event - by Joel Goodman.

The above image appears to be the actual Manchester Arena just after the attack.

Andre Walker, of The New York Observer, works for Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

On the evening of the Manchester Arena attack, Andre Walker tweeted the above image.

This was just two minutes after Greater Manchester Police had put out a Tweet stating that they had just begun responding to serious incident.

Manchester Bombing by Graham Vanbergen

75 minutes after the incident no journalists from the BBC or Sky News had been able to get near the scene of the attack.

True Publica

It would appear that the US and UK governments are not on the same side.

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Is this Abedi and is this a blue suitcase?

The original version of what happened in Manchester:

According to The Times, CCTV footage showed Salman Abedi placing a suitcase down at the scene of the explosion.

'A mother' said that the bomber was wearing a bright red top.

The suicide bomber, Abedi, was acting totally alone, and was not part of a terrorist group.

Abedi used a home made bomb.

The 'possible torso remains of Abediwere found, and identified by his bank card.


Is this a backpack found at the scene of the attack, and is it Abedi's backpack?

After leaks from the USA, there was a second version of what happened in Manchester:

The bomb was in a Karimor rucksack, and not in a suitcase.

The bomber was dressed in dark clothes.

The bomber was part of a large group.

The bomber used a very sophisticated bomb, made by an expert, and with a remote control.

Abedi did not have to be at the scene of the crime.

Andrew Calladine, from Kirkcudbright, in Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland.

Andrew Calladine was educated at Kircudbright Academy and at the University of the West of Scotland.

Andrew Calladine "was awarded a first-class honours degree in software engineering by the University of the West of Scotland."

Andrew Calladine did computer work for the local council ('Freemasons') and the local police ('the people who organised the cover-up on Lockerbie').

Scots.

Kirkcudbright, popular with retired 'diplomats'.

There might be a suspicion that Andrew Calladine was taken over by MI5.


Andrew Calladine became Hamza Siddiq.

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MI5 wants you to think that the Manchester Arena attack was not an Operation Gladio attack.


Andrew Calladine/Hamza Siddiq wants you to think that the Manchester Arena attack was not an Operation Gladio attack.
Operation Gladio / Operation Gladio

Spooky Kirkcudbright.

Recently, Andrew Calladine "did a runner after furious locals in his home town of Kirkcudbright confronted him in Tesco and tried to hound him out...

"Siddiq's rantings sickened locals in Kirkcudbright.

"He has been living in Nottingham, but it's believed he was back home last week for a family funeral...

"A man who lives near Siddiq's mother, Ann Knapton, added: 'The police were here speaking to her for a while on Monday.'"

Scots.

Surely Andrew Calladine is too intelligent to think that the Koran, in its entirety, can be taken seriously.

So, what is going on?

Abdul Wahab Hafidah, murdered in Manchester.

Was MI5 protecting Salman Abedi and various wild Libyans in Manchester?

"Salman Abedi associated with a gang that has for years waged war with a rival grouping in south Manchester...

Salman Abedi had connections to gangs in Manchester

"In south Manchester, community leaders have become increasingly worried that young men of Libyan heritage are being drawn into gang warfare in south Manchester.

reported rising tensions 

"In 2015, Ayub Mabrouk, the son of a Libyan diplomat, was jailed for hiding guns and ammunition for gangsters in Hulme, south Manchester."



Abdul Wahab Hafidah, murdered in Manchester.

A feud between the Moss Side Bloods and the Rusholme Crips gangs has been blamed for the outbreak of violence in Manchester.

Feud between Bloods and Crips gangs.

On 30 December 2016, a 22-year-old man was blasted in the chest on Salisbury Street in Manchester.

On 22 March 2017, Ahmed Mohammed - known locally as 'Mudz' - was fatally stabbed on Crondall Street.

On 12 May 2017, Abdul Wahab Hafidah, 18, was run over by a Vauxhall Corsa on Moss Lane East during the evening rush-hour before the occupants stabbed him in his neck and abdomen.

The increase in violence comes after the Manchester Police's anti-gang unit, based at Greenheys police station in Moss Side, was reorganised.

The unit had been partly responsible for an uneasy peace between south Manchester's gangs since a peak of shootings in 2007.

In August 2016, a gang which flooded parts of Greater Manchester with heroin, cocaine and other drugs was sent to jail.

Gang which flooded Manchester with heroin.



On 26 July 2015, Paul Massey, above, was shot dead by a mysterious gunman.

"Massey, 55, died in a hail of bullets as he stepped out of a silver BMW car outside his home in the Clifton area of Salford, in Manchester."

Observer / dailymail

Paul Massey was the 'Mr Big' of Salford in Greater Manchester in the UK.

Allegedly, Paul Massey ran protection rackets.

Allegedly, Paul Massey was protected by the police.


Salford Lads Club

"A string of people have now told Greater Manchester Police they were sexually abused by Jimmy Savile in Salford in Manchester."

Allegedly, Jimmy Savile was protected by the police.

Savile lived in Salford from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.


Manchester and Salford Police's Chief Constable, W J Richards (centre), with Jimmy Savile.

Anonymous witnesses say that Paul Massey "achieved his notoriety by exploiting teenagers before they were old enough to know better."

Large numbers of people turned out for Paul Massey's funeral.


Paul Massey's funeral.

"After running protection rackets in Salford, and building an estimated £5m fortune though property sales, he was named in 1992 by a social services boss as the mastermind behind organised crime in the city and was even placed under surveillance by MI5.

"Pub landlords and shopkeepers had to each pay on average £400 a week protection money to stop them being put out of business.

"Massey described himself as a security consultant and laundered much of his money gained from property and rackets in a legitimate security firm."


Paul Massey's funeral.

Anonymous witnesses say "the police helped him, backed him up.

"He didn't speak to the local officers; he spoke to the serious end.

"Sometimes if you crossed him, next thing you'd know is that your front door was being kicked in by the police."

Read more: Observer | The Guardian / dailymail


David Cameron visits the Salford Lads Club in 2008

In the 1990s two court cases in which Paul Massey was a defendant both collapsed – one involving an alleged disturbance at a nightclub in Manchester city centre and another a disturbance at a boxing match in Birmingham.

Salford Lads Club

In 1999, Paul Massey stabbed a man in the groin, severing an artery.

After the attack, in Manchester, Massey fled to Amsterdam.

Sources say Massey sold narcotics - ecstasy from Holland and cocaine from South America.

Observer | The Guardian

Arthur Thompson

Paul Massey's friends included Glasgow’s Paul Ferris, who worked for the late Arthur Thompson, known as Scotland’s 'Godfather'.


The Scottish child killer Ian Brady worked for the top Scottish drugs gangster Arthur Thompson, who was an associate of the Kray Twins.

Arthur Thompson reportedly worked for the British security service MI5.

Former 'Glasgow godfather' Thompson reportedly was selling guns to the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force).

"He got caught, and decided to turn grass for MI5. They then told him he could pretty much start the drugs trade in Glasgow." 

Donal MacIntyre - erutufonnofuture / Aangirfan: NARCOTICS, SPOOKS

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In Manchester, on 27 May 2017, University student Yahya Werfalli was arrested.

Yahya is listed on Facebook as a friend of Salman Abedis brother, Hashim, 20.

Aimen Elwafi, 38, reportedly sublet his council flat to Salman Abedi.

According to a 'friend' of Elwafi, stickers of Disney characters which had been stuck on the walls by Mr Elwafi's young son were then scribbled out in black pen.

dailymail.

MANCHESTER FALSE FLAG - PART ONE 


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Monday, 16 January 2023

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY



KIRKCUDBRIGHT PARADE 2017.

The 'Lockdown' meant that some Dumfries and Galloway events were cancelled and some businesses were closed.


DALBEATTIE PARADE 2017



DUMFRIES SHOW 2017 



Douglas Day, Castle Douglas, August 2016.

CASTLE DOUGLAS; DOUGLAS DAY; STEWARTRY SHOW



Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day


Dumfries Agricultural Show, August 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.


 
Dumfries and Galloway. Dumfries Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.


Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

Dalbeattie has some of the friendliest people in Britain.


Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

Dalbeattie has the fabulous little Dalbeattie Museum of Victoriana.

The officer on the deck of the Titanic, when it sank, was a man from Dalbeattie.


Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

The Dalbeattie area is famous for off-road cycling.

7stanes - mountain biking heaven .



Dalbeattie is a relatively undiscovered gem.



Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

You can get a Traditional Thai Massage in Dalbeattie and in Castle Douglas.


Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

The Dalbeattie area is famous for its wildlife.

The RSPB: Mersehead. / Bainloch Deer Park

Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

Dalbeattie Bed and Breakfasts include: Kerr Cottage and Craignair Cottage.


Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway. Dalbeattie Civic Daze : Parade Day

Campsites in the area include: Gorsebank Camping Village and Glenearly Caravan Park.

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Dalbeattie is known as the Granite Town of South West Scotland.

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Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway.

The cycling TOUR OF BRITAIN, 2016, features Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway.

CASTLE DOUGLAS TO WELCOME 'TOUR OF BRITAIN' / Tour of Britain 2016 to start with Glasgow to Castle Douglas route


Dumfries and Galloway. Douglas day 2015 Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco. All the photos were found on the web.

Dumfries and Galloway is cycling country.

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Dumfries and Galloway. Dumfries Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco. All the photos were found on the web.

Dumfries and Galloway is the place to become active.


Dumfries and Galloway. Stewartry Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco. All the photos were found on the web.

Dumfries and Galloway is famous for its food.

Try dinner at Mr Pooks in Castle Douglas, or the bistro at Chrichton Campus in Dumfries, or buy some rib-eye steak at Kilnford Barns Farm Shop, near Dumfries. The Balcary Bay hotel has fine food.

Dumfries and Galloway. Stewartry Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

There are horses everywhere in Dumfries and Galloway.


Dumfries and Galloway. Threave Garden. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

The mild climate in Dumfries and Galloway means exotic plants.

 Dumfries and Galloway. Dumfries Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

There are all year round Entertainments and Events in Dumfries and Galloway.

Dumfries and Galloway. Stewartry Show, 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

"Dumfries and Galloway's gentle coast offers sandy estuaries and quaint, picturesque towns such as Kirkudbright, Rockcliffe and Portpatrick." - The Daily Telegraph

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PETER PAN AND MOAT BRAE.

Dumfries and Galloway means Peter Pan.


Dumfries and Galloway. Kids of Creetown. Creetown Heritage Museum.

Many things were invented in Dumfries and Galloway.

Think of Henry DuncanJames Clerk Maxwell,  Thomas TelfordKirkpatrick Macmillan ...

Dumfries and Galloway. Douglas Day 2015. Non copyrighted photo.

Castle Douglas is famous for its beer, its bread and its biscuits.

Try the Earth's Crust Bakery in Castle Douglas.

There are world-class beers from the Sulwath Brewers in Castle Douglas.

For Homestyle Baking buy Irvings biscuits, tray bakes, loaves and sponges.



Dingwalls in Castle Douglas is now permanently closed.

(King Scallops from Orkney, Cod and Salmon skewers with mixed pepper and onions in a tropical mango, lime and chilli sauce, Langoustines, Oysters, homemade Monkfish Curry...)

Dumfries and Galloway. Douglas Day 2015.  Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

Castle Douglas is a Food Town.


Castle Douglas. Douglas Day 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark, Monaco.

Dumfries and Galloway is home to the original Scots.

Guid Nychburris Day 2016 in DumfriesNon copyrighted photo by K Clark.

In Dumfries and Galloway people still travel by horse.


Kirkcudbright. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway is home to the Scottish Riviera.

Broughton House GardenNon copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway is said to have world's best gardens.


Dumfries Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway is just across the border from England.


Dumfries Show 2016. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Agriculture accounts for 70% of the area of Dumfries and Galloway.


Stewartry Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Famous names associated with Dumfries and Galloway include Robert the Bruce, Merlin the Wizard, Robert Burns, Gavin Maxwell, J M Barrie, James Clerk Maxwell, David Coulthard, John Buchan, the Douglases, the Maxwells, the Jardines, the Keswicks...

And the Putins


Stewartry Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway has 31 golf courses and is 'mountain biking heaven.'


Stewartry Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway has a population of approximately 148,000.

 
Stewartry Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway (above) has been named as the best holiday destination in Britain.

The region earned the award from fans of the flagship BBC programme Countryfile .


Loch Arthur 


Annandale Distillery has a shop, cafe and tours of the distillery.


Dumfries and Galloway. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

In September we headed up North to Dumfries and Galloway for some cycling.


www.queensberrybay.co.uk.

The TV star Neil Oliver says that "there is no more beautiful part of the world than the Galloway Coast."


Castle Douglas. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

The best things in Dumfries and Galloway:


Balcary Bay. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Balcary Bay Country House Hotel - best hotel and best food (Two AA rosettes)

Cream of Galloway

Cream O' Galloway and Laggan Outdoor centres - best activities for children of all ages.

The adventure playground at Cream of Galloway, and, the Laggan Outdoor centre have been closed. 



Drumlanrig Castle - best castle.

Kirkcudbright. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Kipford, and, Carrick Shore - best beaches

Threave Gardens. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Threave Gardens - world class gardens.

Castle Douglas. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Castle Douglas - best town for cyclists (three bicycle shops)

There are also lots of golf courses in the area.

The King's Arms Hotel in Castle Douglas welcomes cyclists and golfers.

Dumfries. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries - best town to visit on a wet day (shops, museums, galleries...)

The artist Hornel's house in Kirkcudbright. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Kirkcudbright - prettiest town.

Gatehouse. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Gatehouse - John Buchan country



The worst things:

Stagecoach's uncomfortable and horrid old buses. The seats are squashed together. (Avoid them)

The general neglect of the area's transport infrastructure by successive governments, including the current one in Edinburgh.

War Games begin.

The worst things:

The use of this area by the military.


Stewartry Show. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries and Galloway is a neglected part of the world, particularly when it comes to transport links.

If it was an independent state, like Lichtenstein, Dumfries and Galloway could be rich.

But Dumfries and Galloway is not an independent state and it lacks the power to make the big decisions.

The really big decisions are made in London and in Edinburgh.

The talented people tend to leave Dumfries and Galloway and head south.


Cairnsmore in the distance. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

If you cycle off the beaten track in Dumfries and Galloway, you will come across an Enid Blyton - John Buchan - Peter Pan - Rupert Bear - Gavin Maxwell sort of world.

Think of mysterious castles, rounded hills and enchanted bays.

J M Barrie went to school in Dumfries, chief town of Dumfries and Galloway, and there he spent the happiest days of his life (Victoria Terrace).

Robert Burns had a house in Dumfries (Burns Street).

Part of John Buchan's Thirty Nine Steps was filmed in the Dumfries and Galloway hills and valleys.

The gentle hills of Galloway are like the ones in the Rupert Bear or Enid Blyton books: gently rounded, with clumps of trees, rocky outcrops, fluffy little clouds and sometimes deep blue sky.


Carlingwark Loch. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

When it's not raining, the light is incredibly bright, and the air so very clear; hence the attraction to artists.

This is not sunny Spain, but the climate tends to be mild; a possibly drier version of Cornwall or the Lake District.

Gavin Maxwell, author of Ring of Bright Water, was born in Dumfries and Galloway.


Drumlanrig Castle

Near Thornhill is exotic, multi-turreted 17th century Drumlanrig Castle, which has paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt.

This is one of Britain's sexiest castles. It is home to the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.

It was a Queensberry who was the father of Lord Arthur Douglas.

Look out for the decorative cupolas, Renaissance-style colonnade, Baroque horseshoe stairway and gorgeous gardens.

There is a large adventure playground for children.


Hornel. EDWARD HORNEL AND HIS GIRLS

Coastal Kirkcudbright is an attractive and aristocratic "artist's town", associated with the Glasgow Boys.

Kirkcudbright's Broughton House is where the artist Edward Hornel used to live. For part of the year, you can tour the beautiful house and see Hornel's Japanese-style pictures of little girls, some naked, and his magical garden, which is probably the very best garden in the world.

Kirkcudbright had a wild life park (now closed) and a fabulous jazz festival each June.


Wigtown

Wigtown, which looks rather French, is Dumfries and Galloway's book town and it has at least 20 book businesses.

"Wigtown Book Festival offers more than 200 events for adults, children and young people including literature, music, film, theatre, arts and crafts.

"The festival takes place for 10 days each autumn - 23rd September to 2nd October 2016 - and has welcomed speakers such as:

"Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd, John Simpson and Anne Applebaum."

Depleted-uranium shells were fired at Dundrennan near Kirkcudbright. MoD

Weapons testing at Dundrennan has led to certain worries.

"Although 27 tonnes of depleted uranium have been fired into the sea at the Kircudbright range none of the shells has been recovered despite extensive searches....the controversial shells ...blamed for causing...Gulf War Syndrome..." according to The Galloway News.

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Gatehouse of Fleet has a large second hand book shop, run by poet Robin Munro.

Gatehouse's Cally Palace Hotel has AA one rosette food and a super golf course.

Georgian buildings; bonny views of hills.

Gatehouse had the Laggan Outdoor centre (now closed)


Laggan Outdoor centre

New Abbey is associated with John Balliol, the founder of Balliol College, Oxford. This pretty village has an abbey and a tearoom.

Castle Douglas has the best shopping in the area, a caravan park, three cycle shops, golf, a boating loch, a little art gallery, a theatre, one of the best second hand book shops in Scotland and the tiny Sulwath brewery which produces the world's tastiest real ales (Knockendoch is a dark copper coloured brew tasting of deeply roasted malts) and which provides tours.

Castle Douglas is close to Threave Gardens and Threave Castle.


Creetown - well worth a visit. It has a gem museum. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Creetown has a gem museum and a fair number of holiday makers.


From the Dalbeattie Museum. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

The National Trust's hilly Threave Gardens, near the town of Castle Douglas, has a magical walled garden, glasshouses, an eastern style pond, rock plants, tall trees, rhododendrons and heavenly views on a clear day.

Logan Botanic Garden, 14 miles South of Stranraer, at Port Logan, open March-October, has water, walled, terrace, woodland and other small gardens, with tree ferns, palm trees, climbers... and there's a nice licensed restaurant.

Crossmichael, near Castle Douglas, used to have a Michelin starred restaurant, but it moved to Leith in Edinburgh, which is where the money and the power lie.

Buddhists, and others, will enjoy the Samye-Ling Tibetan Centre at Eskdalemuir. Here you will find a magnificent golden-roofed temple, and the oldest Tibeten centre in the West.

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Port Patrick

Rockcliffe is an Enid Blyton sort of coastal village with mystery islands, beaches, rock pools and (according to the local papers) smugglers not too far away. Great for walks. Nice tearoom. Yachts and pubs at nearby Kipford.

(Wash your hands after building castles on the beach. Watch out for incoming tides).

Dumfries straddles the River Nith.

Dumfries has some superbly attractive Victorian and medieval buildings which are now right next to some truly hideous 60's buildings and various carparks.

You will see lots of children who look seriously malnourished.

You begin to think you are in the Third World.

Some of the school kids from JM Barrie's old school will politely offer directions.


Dumfries. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Dumfries has a number of attractions, including:

1. The Gracefield Arts Centre.

2.  The Dumfries townhouse Moat Brae is  a shrine to J M Barrie... "It was in the Enchanted Garden of this house, chasing, climbing, and prowling through the undergrowth, that the young Barrie met Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and the other characters..." -Glasgow Herald.

Chrichton Church. The Crichton

3. Dumfries has the fantastic, world-class, Victorian, Chrichton buildings and gardens at Bankend Rd.

http://www.chrichton.org.uk/

Formerly this was one of the biggest mental institutions in the world - world famous and set up by a rich philanthropist; now it is university buildings, a decent hotel, museum, gardens, and a smaller mental institution.

4. Dumfries also has one of Britain's best looking churches - St Michaels.

Robert Burns is buried outside.

5. Dumfries has a theatre linked to J M Barrie.

6. There is a Camera Obscura and a museum.

7. There are lots of charity shops.


Stewartry Show, Castle Douglas. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Loch Ken, near Castle Douglas, is for windsurfers. The Galloway Sailing Centre at Loch Ken can tell you about Dinghy Courses, powerboating courses, canoeing courses, gorge scrambling and quad bikes.

Family fun can be had at the award winning Cream o' Galloway, Rainton, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas. Open Easter until October. This place has a nature trail as well as a restaurant selling the best ice cream in the UK.


Castle Douglas. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

Cycling was invented in Dumfries and Galloway.

Cyclists might enjoy the route from Rhonehouse to Kirkcudbright ( 7 miles, deserted road, flowers, sheep, rabbits, little hills like babies' buttocks, country cottages)....

Or Palnackie to Castle Douglas taking the route over the hills.

The Dalbeattie area is famous for having off-road trails and miles and miles of quiet country roads.


www.7stanes.gov.uk/forestry/achs-5rnffw

Dumfries and Galloway has traditionally been used by the armed forces for hush hush training of special forces (and training of 'Moslem terrorists', according to newspapers).

Expect to see the occasional Hawk fighter, tank, or men dressed as trees.

Military aircraft have crashed into local farms. "The latest crash was only seconds away from Lockerbie, in one direction, and Dumfries in the other..." according to The Dumfries Courier.


Salem bin Laden and his first wife.

The Duke of Buccleuch's Drumlanrig Castle is in Dumfries and Galloway.

The subsidiary titles associated with the Dukedom of Buccleuch include: Queensberry, Drumlanrig and Douglas.

Marquess of Queensberry.

Ambrose Carey is the son of the12th Marquess of Queensberry.

His half-sister Caroline Carey (b. 1959) married the late Salem bin Laden [3][4].

....

Caroline Carey married two of Osama Bin Laden's brothers - Salem Bin Laden, and after Salem died in an air crash in 1988, Khaled bin Laden.

Salem bin Laden reportedly helped the CIA during Iran-Contra.

PBS Frontline, 2001New Yorker, 11/5/2001 /BIN LADEN AND BUCCLEUCH /
THE BIN LADEN FAMILY - VERY JEWISH / Lord Milo Douglas, the Bin Ladens and Gay Affairs....



Ambrose Carey, "operational director of Armor Holdings, has met many members of the bin Laden family, some of whom have properties in Britain."

Telegraph.

"Ambrose Carey was the executive in charge of the Saddam hunt, and is now running Alaco, an investigation firm based in London."

The National.


The Criffel - Kirkbean.

Osama bin Laden's Mujahideen received training from the British SAS in mountains surrounding the Criffel near Dumfries in Scotland. (Sunday Mail, Sept 2001)

Former SAS member, Ken Connor, said that training camps were set up in a remote mountain area in 1983.

(BBC News SCOTLAND Scots link to US terror suspect / PEN-L message, SAS trained Mujahedin fighters in Scotland)


Lockerbie

Lockerbie is famous because of Major Charles McKee.

Pan Am Flight 103 hit Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.

On that flight "were at least 2 US Intelligence agents and a Mr Khalid Nazir Jafaar."

The Dumfries and Galloway police began to investigate.

But for two days it was "difficult" for them to collect evidence as "CIA agents combed the countryside for the luggage of the dead American intelligence agents and a suitcase full of heroin....

"59 bodies were left lying around Lockerbie until 24 December... then there were only 58 bodies..." according to Lester Coleman.


Sir Malcolm Ross

The Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright is Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, a member of the Royal Household[2], and a Non-Executive Chairman[4][5] of the International Security and Defence group, Westminster Group plc


Kirkcudbright. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

TRANSPORT

Much of the rail network is gone.

The road network is poor.

The nearest airport is at Newcastle in England.

As transport is the key to the success of an area, Dumfries and Galloway has its problems!

National Express coaches will take you from London, Birmingham, Manchester etc to Dumfries and beyond.

A grotty little train will transport you from Carlisle to Dumfries. The train used to go to Stranraer, but not any more.

Bus services are poor.

Many local buses travel too fast. Stagecoach buses have little leg room and usually no toilets even on the longest journeys.


Dumfries by William Miller

WHERE TO STAY?

Balcary Bay Country House Hotel - best hotel and best food (Two AA rosettes)

Knockinaam Lodge.

Glenholme - Kirkcudbright Luxury Guest House.

The King's Arms Hotel in Castle Douglas welcomes cyclists and golfers.

Brighouse Bay leisure park takes caravans and tents and has lodges and cottages.

It "boasts a vast range of on-site facilities that appeal to everyone, from small boats on the pond for the younger generation to Quad Bikes for the thrillseekers. The indoor pool complex offers swimming for all ages with a jacuzzi and steam room for a spot of relaxation after all that work.The 18 hole Golf Course is championship length and has glorious views across the Irish Sea. There is also a 9 hole par 3 for all the family."

Similar to Brighouse Bay is Sandyhills Bay, sitting at the foot of wooded hills and close to a sheltered sandy beach.

There are many other caravan and camp sites.

You could stay in DUMFRIES which has at least one good Bed and Breakfast.

CASTLE DOUGLAS has a number of Bed and Breakfast places.

GATEHOUSE's Cally Palace Hotel has one AA rosette food and a super golf course; Georgian buildings; bonny views of hills.

NEWTON STEWART, a quiet country town in the middle of John Buchan style countryside, has the KIRROUGHTREE HOUSE hotel which has an AA 2 Rosette restaurant. The hotel is AA 3 stars. Posh country house interior.

PORTPATRICK, on the coast, somewhat remote, has the wonderful KNOCKINAAM LODGE HOTEL, the restaurant of which has AA 3 Rosettes! (same as London's River Cafe, Bibendum....)

“First Class accomodation in a beautiful location”

“A Home from Home”

“WOW Factor in the new rooms”

Views In Galloway !!

William Jardine. The Keswick family still has farms and properties in Dumfries and Galloway.

THE PEOPLE

The people of Dumfries and Galloway are the people who ran Hong Kong (Jardines and Flemings...) and ran a large part of the Empire!

You'll bump into Galloway people in Africa, South America and Australasia.

Strangely, this area has quite a few millionaires. Lots of big houses. They must like the scenery.

Dumfries and Galloway has a low crime rate...... It has the best crime clear-up rate in Britain.


Dumfries. Non copyrighted photo by K Clark.

TO SUM UP - THIS IS BETTER THAN the Lake District or Cornwall - if you have a romantic sort of mind and a car or a bike.

Dumfries and Galloway will appeal to -

CYCLISTS, golfers, fishermen, WALKERS, foodies, CARAVANERS, booklovers, JOHN BUCHAN/JM BARRIE/GAVIN MAXWELL FANS, Bird watchers, Enid Blyton children..........

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Threave Garden
Robert Burns House
Drumlanrig Castle
The Stewartry Museum
World Famous Old Blacksmith's Shop Museum
Cardoness Castle
Cream 'o Galloway
Threave Castle
Broughton House
Globe Inn

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