Now that the group had been to several castles over the last few weeks, they thought that they could do more in than one a day. Here is a run down of their day plus exciting news from Debbie
Stirling Castle – located in Stirling (Not hard to guess that) is one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland, both historically and architecturally. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, (She is everywhere) in 1542, and others were born or died there. It is a big castle and they liked walking around the castle. They almost spent too much time at the castle.
Dunblane Cathedral – This is an old church that is owned by the Crown and maintained by Scotland. It was an impressive church.
Doune Castle – is a medieval stronghold near the village of Doune, in the Stirling district of central Scotland. Debbie was all excited. For our older readers, it is heavily featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. For our young hip readers, Doune Castle was also Winterfell for the Game of Thornes and it is CastleLeoch in Outlander.
Here is the most exciting news of all. The star of Outlander is named Jamie Fraser. Our accommodation owner is Jackie. Jackie worked on the filming and she handed Jami a baby and touched him. Jackie touched Debbie so that makes one degree of separation between Debbie and Jaime. You know there is the Kevin Bacon 6 degrees but Debbie is one degree. She will be giving interviews when she returns. She already told Lindsey that she can be two degrees of desperation.
What a cool day of churches and castles! The church is quite impressive and I think I recognize the castle from winterfell!
I’m so excited to have two degrees of separation from Jamie…
The church is really cool. Two degrees is awesome!