Battle of Bannockburn

Today we didn’t have much on our list. We started by setting the GPS to navigate us to Stirling Castle. Yes… another castle, they seem to have a few around here, and they are on our Great British Pass making them free. When we arrived at Stirling castle it was bright and sunny, we wish! Yes it was raining, and quite heavily. We started the visit to the castle with a guided tour. The tour was quick but interesting, which really helped. They were creating a tapestry on the grounds, and will finish it on Tuesday after having taken over three years to get to this point. The tapestry was really fantastic, a great work of art.

From Stirling Castle we headed to the Wallace Monument. It wasn’t on the GPS, and we were already in Stirling so we just headed north and hoped for the best. It all worked really well and we made it to the monument with ease. The monument was not on our pass, so we didn’t go in. We did walk to the top of the mountain and have a look around before heading to Bannockburn.

Bannockburn was the most interesting site of the day. Today was the anniversary of the second day of the battle of Bannockburn. The site was housing a re-enactment of the battle. It was quite different to walk around the site with people dressed in battle gear. Unfortunately it was really cold and windy. We managed to stay for about an hour and a half before we needed to move on.

We ended the day with a walk down the Royal Mile, and a really great dinner at an Italian restaurant need the B&B. We had a really great day, even if we are getting a little tired.

(Andrew)