{"id":698,"date":"2016-05-31T17:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=698"},"modified":"2016-05-31T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:48:16","slug":"headed-for-pitlochry-with-a-stop-at-stirling-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Headed for Pitlochry with a stop at Stirling Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are off for the second stop on our trip. \u00a0It&#8217;s time to make our way to Pitlochy. \u00a0If anyone wanted to look it up on a map we are between Inverness and Edinburgh on a map.<\/p>\n<p>We actually didn&#8217;t do bad getting out of Linlithgow today. \u00a0We looked up our route last night and determined which exit on the roundabouts we needed and it actually went pretty smooth.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped off in Stirling to visit the castle. \u00a0Everyone has their favorite castles but I have to agree with one of our servers in Linlithgow that this one is one of the better ones. \u00a0LOL&#8230;.we took a wrong turn getting there but still managed to get there no problem.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently doing restoration work on it so couldn&#8217;t get a really great picture of the main entrance. \u00a0So I&#8217;ll give you a courtyard view instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-26.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-699\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-26-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-26-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-26.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the King and Queens bedchambers. \u00a0The really neat thing about Stirling is they have people in each of the rooms and most of them are dressed in period dress and they are there to give you information on the room or anything in general.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_700\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-27.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-700\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-27-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Kings bedchamber\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-27-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-27.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kings bedchamber<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_701\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-28.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-701\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-28-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Queens bedchamber\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-28-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-28.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queens bedchamber<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-29.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-702\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-29-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-29-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-29.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_703\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-30.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-703\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-30-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Great Hall\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-30-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-30.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can walk almost the entire curtain wall. \u00a0The thing I loved was they put up a sign that said &#8220;sheer drop off. \u00a0Children must be supervised&#8221; and there were no hand rails. \u00a0Kind of cool to see it as it&#8217;s supposed to be. \u00a0Yes, I walked everything we could walk on the curtain wall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_705\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-32.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-32-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Curtain wall walk. \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-32-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-32.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtain wall walk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-38.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-712\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-38-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-38-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-38.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-31.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-704\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-31-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-31-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-31.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can get a guided tour around the castle if you want. \u00a0The people doing the tours are also dressed up. \u00a0I only caught this one from the back but he is dressed in a Knights outfit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-33.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-706\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-33-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-33-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-33.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We finally made it into Pitlochry. \u00a0This is a cute town but big on the tourist foot traffic. \u00a0It took us two passes up and down the road and stopping into another hotel to find out where we were supposed to be going. \u00a0But we are here. \u00a0Had us some dinner and now we are relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>Our B&amp;B is kind of cute. \u00a0The room isn&#8217;t very big but the bathroom is much larger<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-34.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-707\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-34-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-34-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-34-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-34-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-35.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-708\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-35-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-35-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-35-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-35-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-36.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-36-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-36-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-36-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-36-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of town. \u00a0Really a cute little town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-37.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-710\" src=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-37-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-37-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-37-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-37-1024x576.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to plan my trip to Dunnottar Castle. \u00a0There is also castle Menzies and we&#8217;ve been directed to Blair castle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are off for the second stop on our trip. \u00a0It&#8217;s time to make our way to Pitlochy. \u00a0If anyone wanted to look it up on a map we are between Inverness and Edinburgh on a map. We actually didn&#8217;t do bad getting out of Linlithgow today. \u00a0We looked up our route last night and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}