{"id":75,"date":"2011-06-04T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-02-04T04:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T04:13:32","slug":"glamis-castle-st-andrews-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Glamis Castle, St. Andrews (day 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning we took a tour of Aberdeen city center.\u00a0 You almost need to spend a week in this city just to see everything.\u00a0 The architecture on the buildings is amazing.\u00a0 There are no pictures yet because we only did a drive through.\u00a0 One of the other lady’s in our group got pictures and I will have to go and get some from her photo site to post.\u00a0 There is still a portion of the original Aberdeen cathedral still standing.\u00a0 Evidently General Cromwell stabled horses in part of the cathedral at one time.\u00a0 Leave it to the English.<\/p>\n

There are oil rigs off the coast and we learned that Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe and they service the oil rigs off the coast.\u00a0 All revenues from the oil go to Westminster and this is a bone of contention for the scots as 90% of all the oil is on the scots side of the border and none of the money stays in Scotland.<\/p>\n

We pasted Donotar Castle were the Scottish crown jewels had been being stored.\u00a0 Cromwell was on his way to the castle to try and get the jewels so he could melt them down, but the jewels were snuck out of the castle right past the soldiers and taken to Edinburgh castle where they were hidden in a false wall so no one could find them.\u00a0 Needless to say Cromwell never did get to the jewels.\u00a0 Charles II in 1650 was the last person to wear the Scottish Crown jewels.<\/p>\n

This area was also the home base area for the Picts after the Scots had settled in the West and North of Scotland.\u00a0 The only remains from the Picts are the standing stones that you find around the island.\u00a0 Their language completely died out.\u00a0 843 or so Scots finally beat the Picts and after that the Picts disappeared completely.<\/p>\n

We toured Glamis Castle.\u00a0 The childhood home of the Queen Mother.\u00a0 The family still lives in this castle but has opened up most of it for viewing.\u00a0 This castle was very cool because while most of it was paneled over, there is still a very large section in the middle that has not been and you can really see just how thick the walls were when they built these things.\u00a0 It was very neat to see a castle with the stones still showing on the inside.\u00a0 Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside but here is a picture of the outside.<\/p>\n

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After that we were off to St. Andrews.\u00a0 This is the home of golf and yes, you guessed it where Prince William and Kate met at school.\u00a0 And yes, they have a plaque at the pub where they met.\u00a0 Talk about capitalizing on tourism.\u00a0 =)\u00a0 This was our lunch break and we only had 2 hours here so Dwayne and I passed on lunch and headed straight for the Cathedral and castle ruins at the other end of town.\u00a0 The Cathedral has quite a large cemetery with it and was quite huge in it’s day.\u00a0 You can see the foundation for most of it and can get a feel for the layout.<\/p>\n

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You can’t see it but behind us in the picture is the other end of the cathedral.\u00a0 I’ll post more pictures of the cathedral later.<\/p>\n

From there we moved on to the Castle ruins.\u00a0 We were able to get most of our pictures from outside the fence but the tower you see in the background on the right of the above picture can be walked up and Dwayne wanted to go up so we bought a ticket which included admission to the castle.\u00a0 I thought he had pictures already downloaded of the castle.\u00a0 I’ll post some later so you can see it.<\/p>\n

After that we headed in to Edinburgh and to our hotel for the night.<\/p>\n

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This morning we took a tour of Aberdeen city center.\u00a0 You almost need to spend a week in this city just to see everything.\u00a0 The architecture on the buildings is amazing.\u00a0 There are no pictures yet because we only did a drive through.\u00a0 One of the other lady’s in our group got pictures and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-ireland-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}