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| View from Stirling Castle |
The main event scheduled for today was a visit to Stirling Castle. The day started with driving to a ferry just a few minutes from our Mull hotel, to take us on to Oban.
After a 45 minute ferry ride we were in Oban, and boarding the bus again.
On to Glen Coe for a "comfort stop" and a look around. Glen Coe is yet another stop that looked totally different from our visit 34 years ago. I guess because Scotland has so many buildings dating back hundreds of years, we just don't expect that much change in only a few decades. :))
Lunch today was provided by Seniors Discovery at a pub along the way. I don't know why but we have no pictures of lunch, which included soup, sandwich and battered haggis. This haggis was somewhat different than the previous version a few days back, but similar, and yummy.
Onward to a tour of the very impressive Stirling Castle. Even by castle scale, this place is huge, and as usual our pictures don't do it justice. Here's a link if you'd like to see more about this very historic Scottish castle:
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| Many different garden areas in the castle grounds |
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| There's a big drop past that stone wall |
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| A scale model of the castle |
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| The National Wallace Monument off in the distance, commemorating the life of Sir William Wallace |
The rain held off for our lengthy tour of the castle, but started up again once on the bus and headed for Glasgow.
We'll be staying at the same central-Glasgow hotel, the Maldron Hotel, for the next 3 nights until our departure for home.
We also toured Stirling Castle; very fine kilted tour guide!! Me thinks you perhaps did not tackle the Wallace Monument???? We climbed all 246 steps for an amazing view as our reward!! Sheila
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