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Burns Tours of Ayrshire is operated by your guides Malcolm and Maurice.
Both live in the Mauchline area and are members of The Mauchline Burns Club.
Maurice & Malcolm will take you on a day-trip around many of the sites in Ayrshire associated with Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet.
We can also customise a tour to suit your requirements.
Visit the cottage where 'Rabbie' was born before heading into the countryside to see the many places he himself spent time at, where he worked and where he lived when he was writing some of his most famous poems. Visit places associated with his works, where his friends and characters from his poems lived.
Maurice & Malcolm will take you on a day-trip around many of the sites in Ayrshire associated with Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet.
We can also customise a tour to suit your requirements.
Visit the cottage where 'Rabbie' was born before heading into the countryside to see the many places he himself spent time at, where he worked and where he lived when he was writing some of his most famous poems. Visit places associated with his works, where his friends and characters from his poems lived.
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Rabbie Burns - Born in Alloway, died in Dumfries, lived in Mauchline!
Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on 25 January 1759, Robert Burns was merely 14 years of age when he wrote his first song, "Handsome Nell". From then on the bard's life was devoted to penning great poetic masterpieces such as The Cotter's Saturday Night, Tam O'Shanter, Tae A Mouse and Ae Fond Kiss. There is no doubt that his life of poverty and hard work, whilst struggling to farm heavy, infertile soil, together with his love of nature (and the lassies) was his inspiration.
He died in Dumfries in July 1796, aged 37,as a result of contracting sub-acute bacterial endocarditis. Rabbie had suffered intermittent ill health since a teenager, including rheumatic fever and nervous depression.
On the day of his burial more than 10,000 people came to watch and pay their respects. However, his popularity then was nothing compared to the heights it has reached since.
On the anniversary of his birth, Scots both at home and around the world celebrate the life and works of Rabbie Burns with a supper, where they address the haggis and toast 'The Lassies'. A celebration which would undoubtedly make him proud.
On 13 January 2004, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, gave the Inaugural Robert Burns Memorial Lecture, "The Brotherhood of Man", which he delivered at United Nations Headquarters. Kofi Annan said "...it is one of Burns's most famous lines -- "a Man's a Man for a' That" -- that I should like to serve as the touchstone for my remarks tonight. And in particular his prayer, in the same poem, that "Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that".
He died in Dumfries in July 1796, aged 37,as a result of contracting sub-acute bacterial endocarditis. Rabbie had suffered intermittent ill health since a teenager, including rheumatic fever and nervous depression.
On the day of his burial more than 10,000 people came to watch and pay their respects. However, his popularity then was nothing compared to the heights it has reached since.
On the anniversary of his birth, Scots both at home and around the world celebrate the life and works of Rabbie Burns with a supper, where they address the haggis and toast 'The Lassies'. A celebration which would undoubtedly make him proud.
On 13 January 2004, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, gave the Inaugural Robert Burns Memorial Lecture, "The Brotherhood of Man", which he delivered at United Nations Headquarters. Kofi Annan said "...it is one of Burns's most famous lines -- "a Man's a Man for a' That" -- that I should like to serve as the touchstone for my remarks tonight. And in particular his prayer, in the same poem, that "Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that".