Last Saturday, (the 14th of October) Mike and I packed a lunch and headed to the bus station to go to Stirling Castle. Its about a half an hour away by bus, so that wasn't bad. Stirling is a much smaller town than Glasgow and Edinburgh. We had our first "small" Scottish town experience and it was wonderful. There is a constant smell here in Glasgow because it is such a large city. Something between fresh baked bread (nice), other food cooking (also nice), stale beer and cigarettes, and old pee. Obvisouly the last three are not all that pleasant, but as drinking is a huge thing for the college students (obviously) and there is no smoking in bars so everyone smokes outside, and the drinking leads to males using the streets are their bathroom, and there of course is smog from all the traffic. I have even seen parents showing their small sons how to use the sides of buildings and cars as their own private urinal more than once, so I guess its just part of life here, but doesn't help the arroma. Anyway, it was nice to be able to breathe in fresh air.
The castle was beautiful and you could explore most parts of it. They have "modernized" some parts of it that they use for the Park Rangers offices and some of their military offices. But even with these parts off limits, it took us about 4 hours to complete our explorations of the castle grounds. We were able to take a tour of the castle and hear about quite a bit of history on the castle (I love these tours!). We were incredibly lucky and it was a wonderfully warm and sunny afternoon and the views from the castle were amazing. Here are some pictures of or day...
Here is the entrance to Stirling Castle.
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How cool! Its too bad Mike wasn't able to sightsee while in London, but great that he was able to get so much research done. I've been hearing some german lately, I didn't know Mike knew it :)(the german class is in the classroom right before my Micro class. They were singing Christmas songs Tuesday :)
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