David Hayman heads on Weir’s Way but his true love is the Oz rainforests

Scots actor David Hayman is following in the footsteps of former broadcasting favourite Tom Weir.

On Weir’s Way, on STV on Mondays at 8pm, sees David retrace some of the walks taken by Tom in his fondly remembered series. But it’s just part of David’s busy schedule.

He told us about his favourite holiday destinations.

“When I was a kid, my mum and dad used to rent a wash hoose in Girvan for a month every summer.

“For the first two weeks it’d be my mum, myself, my brother and my grannie and granddad. And in the second two weeks my grandparents would leave and my dad would join us when he got his holiday from the steel yard.

“You walked out the back gate of the garden right down on to the beach. We’d swim in the breakers and slide down Byrne Hill on our backsides on cardboard boxes.

“The fields were full of Girvan tatties which we’d cook and eat with lumps of butter. They were happy, innocent days and I’ve got very fond memories.

“Probably the best holiday Alice and I ever had before the kids were born was when we went to Sicily. We ended up on a tiny wee island called Ustica, which is really just a lump of rock in the middle of the ocean.

“The beaches were beautiful and we spent our days snorkelling and then eating some of the most delicious seafood in the world at night. There wasn’t a Brit in sight.

“A lot of my family live in Australia I lost my mum a couple of years ago but my father, sister and her three boys are still there and we’ve been there a lot, including the rainforests in northern Queensland.

“I also had the family out to Cape Town in South Africa when I was making a couple of films and we had a great time on a game park.

“Of all the places in the world, I’d always want to go to the Scottish islands but my wife would always want to go the Med.

“We’ve got nothing in common – maybe that’s why we’re still together after 33 years! I usually give in and leave it to Alice because I get to travel with my job.”