Cultoss

Marl and Millie are off to Edinburgh for the day so Graham and I took ourselves to breakfast and then a wee drive to the seaside to find Culross. I’d never heard of Culross until we went into a gift shop and there was some pretty stretches of a little village there.

It’s only about 25 minutes away so an easy drive. Today is looking great so far, the sun is out and the wind is down. Turns out Culross is one of the setting for Outlander, a popular tv show. It wasn’t too busy when we got there but the crowds thicken up over a few hours with lots of people looking for filming spots around town.

Culross is quite unique in as far as it was a bustling little place with a coal mine and salt works 400 years ago but left neglected after the mind was flooded and the entrepreneur who built the “Palace” died. So most of the village was still original, although neglected and has been restored to original condition by the national trust.

We did a tour through The Palace which is more a large manor house really, it would have been very fancy for it’s day and is certainly much bigger and more opulent then all the other houses in town. The house is set on the side of a hill and has a beautiful garden behind it filled with herbs and flowers. Lovely views over the town to the River Forth from the top of the garden. It’s a very popular place on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

We picked up a few groceries and checked out the oldest pub in Stirling for a quick drink before having an early dinner and meeting the girls on the train from Edinburgh.Baca selengkapnya