Scotland 2016
Headed for Pitlochry with a stop at Stirling Castle
We are off for the second stop on our trip. It’s time to make our way to Pitlochy. If anyone wanted to look it up on a map we are between Inverness and Edinburgh on a map. We actually didn’t do bad getting out of Linlithgow today. We looked up our route last night and […]
Blackness Castle
Today is our last day here in Linlithgow and on the recommendation of a couple of the servers in the resturant we went to explore Blackness Castle. So far this is one of the best ruins we have seen. It looks like it’s shaped like the front of a boat. It had an actual […]
Linlithgow Palace
We had a rather late night last night. The told us when we originally checked in that there would be some noise on Saturday night as well as Sunday night. Well that would be fine except they neglected to tell us that it would sound like the party was being held in our room and […]
Edinburgh Day 2 – Edinburgh Castle and Mary Kings Close
The day started with a tour of The Real Mary King’s close. We weren’t allowed to take pictures during the tour. We learned that the close is now underground because The Royal Exchange wanted to build a new building and no longer wanted the Close so they knocked down about 4 or 5 of the […]
Edinburgh day 1
had our breakfast this morning and headed off to the train station on foot. Yup mom thinks I’m trying to kill her right about now. The walk from the hotel to the train should take about 10 minutes. Our took about 20 because we had to make numerous stops along the way for mom. Got […]