Stirling Castle

We had an early flight from Belfast to Edinburgh this morning. Nice quite airport, good flight bit if a hold up when the hire car wasn’t ready but they eventually got it for us. It a bit more roomy then the last one which is good. Stirling is not far from Edinburgh so it only took us about 40 minutes to get here.

We can’t get into the accomodation until 4 so we took ourselves up to Stirling Castle for a visit. What a magnificent place, we have a fabulous tour guide with a great booming voice, funny and knowledgeable. The castle sits high up on the hill overlooking Stirling with fabulous views of the surrounding countryside. Parts of it, the kitchens, guard house, vaults and some living rooms are set up as they would have been when the kings of Scotland were living there. Queen Anne’s garden at the front of the castle was filled with flowers. You could just imagine her sitting there enjoying the sunshine.

We loaded up on happy hour supplies for a few days at Tesco. Our accomodation is lovely. Nice big unit, with big bedrooms and two bathrooms, comfy beds. In a lovely neighbourhood too and close to the Main Street. We went off to forage for some dinner with great success.Read more