Stirling Castle, Scotland

We had an early flight from Belfast to Edinburgh this morning. Nice quiet airport, good flight but the hire car wasn’t quite ready. After a bit of a wait we had our car. It's a bit more roomy than the last one which is good. Stirling is not far from Edinburgh so it only took us about 40 minutes to get there.

We can’t get into the accommodation until 4pm so we took ourselves up to Stirling Castle for a visit. What a magnificent place. We had 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 accommodation is lovely. Nice big unit, with big bedrooms and two bathrooms and comfy beds. It is in a lovely neighbourhood too and close to the main street. We walked into town to forage for some dinner with great success.Read more