The Great Hall of Stirling Castle

Ok, so why is this building such an ugly color? That's because this building which served as the heart of the castle complex has been painstakingly recently restored to its past glory. When it was first built during the reign of James IV of Scotland it was covered in this same kind of limewash.

Day Nine (On to Edinburgh)

July 21st 2006
I made the mistake of watching the morning TV news. The weather report promised more record high temperatures all over Europe. Luckily for us Scotland's record high temps would only reach the upper 80's instead of the near 100's further South. Oddly enough as we started loading up on to the bus it was actually a bit nippy outside. Today's itinerary sounded like another winner to me: We woul ... read more

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