Our first stop was at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Willow Tea Rooms in central Glasgow where we had tea and scones. We then started our pilgrimage to my ancestral Closeburn Castle, former seat of the Kirkpatrick family. Google told us it was in the village of Closeburn, but had no further information as to its location, so we bravely set off thereto determined to find it on our own. After being diverted by police around a tree felled by the previous night's gale force winds, we arrived in Closeburn, but we couldn't see the castle anywhere. We queried a local who gave us directions to the best vantage point, perhaps half a mile from the castle, and we proceeded to photograph. Also, the Closeburn parish church was nearby.

We headed back to Glasgow via an alternate route since many of the roads we'd taken down had been partially flooded in places. After supping, we repaired to our room to listen to the various sounds of Hogmanay both within and without the hotel as the clock struck midnight.