Thursday May 9 Stirling
Thursday May 9
Our apartment is amazing! At the end of a 1/2 mile farm road, separated from a similar rental property to ensure privacy and smack dab in the middle of a working farm. The owner of the farm, Wendy, came over about 3 hours after we arrived to see if anything was amiss. With heated floors, a very modern house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, windows all over, a view of William Wallace monument in the near distance, cows and sheep in the next field over, a well equipped kitchen....what could be amiss?
Wendy had supplied a packaged chicken dinner that took 40 minutes in the oven, three smaller bottles of wine (we brought our own + beer but thank you Wendy) and basics for a lite breakfast. We found the cell phone, GPS unit and a full workup of what the area has to offer on the dining room table. Tomorrow starts with an Untours local rep meeting all the Untours folks who are here in the area. We are to assemble at the Dunblane Cathedral at 9:30 for orientation, a tour of the Cathedral and lunch. This meeting is standard for Untours stays.
After the tour, we walked a short way to the oldest purpose built library in Scotland, the Leighton Library. It was built and initially stocked by one of the first bishops of the church and has been a library since day one. There are books on shelves, available to open and look through, from the late 1400's. There are more than 1500 books just sitting on shelves. Unbelievable how everyone has access to it all.
Lunch at a period restaurant with a local 'bard' telling tales. Not so great.
We had the rest of the day open so we headed off to another castle, what else! We are close to castled-out and will only go to Stirling Castle nearby as part of an Old Sterling town adventure.
We had dinner in the Jam Jar restaurant in a town named Bridge of Allan. It was recommended in our apartment package but fell far short of the hype. O Well, can't win them all.
Went to be kinda early and off to St. Andrews tomorrow.
Our apartment is amazing! At the end of a 1/2 mile farm road, separated from a similar rental property to ensure privacy and smack dab in the middle of a working farm. The owner of the farm, Wendy, came over about 3 hours after we arrived to see if anything was amiss. With heated floors, a very modern house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, windows all over, a view of William Wallace monument in the near distance, cows and sheep in the next field over, a well equipped kitchen....what could be amiss?
Wendy had supplied a packaged chicken dinner that took 40 minutes in the oven, three smaller bottles of wine (we brought our own + beer but thank you Wendy) and basics for a lite breakfast. We found the cell phone, GPS unit and a full workup of what the area has to offer on the dining room table. Tomorrow starts with an Untours local rep meeting all the Untours folks who are here in the area. We are to assemble at the Dunblane Cathedral at 9:30 for orientation, a tour of the Cathedral and lunch. This meeting is standard for Untours stays.
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Dunblane Cathedral, begun in the 1300's |
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Refurbished organ Dunblane |
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Date of one repair. |
After the tour, we walked a short way to the oldest purpose built library in Scotland, the Leighton Library. It was built and initially stocked by one of the first bishops of the church and has been a library since day one. There are books on shelves, available to open and look through, from the late 1400's. There are more than 1500 books just sitting on shelves. Unbelievable how everyone has access to it all.
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Robert Burns Poems-Original printings-we could handle this book |
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Oldest book in library. 1499 |
We had the rest of the day open so we headed off to another castle, what else! We are close to castled-out and will only go to Stirling Castle nearby as part of an Old Sterling town adventure.
We had dinner in the Jam Jar restaurant in a town named Bridge of Allan. It was recommended in our apartment package but fell far short of the hype. O Well, can't win them all.
Went to be kinda early and off to St. Andrews tomorrow.
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