As part of travelling to see Scotland play Wales in the 6 Nations, we decided to head up earlier and check out Stirling - a town roughly speaking, between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Stirling is an ancient Royal town built around a large castle. In fact, we stayed in the former stables of the castle, just below the castle walls and only a short walk to the castle entrance.
The castle itself is pretty cool really and we had a good wander around the castle which is in quite good nick.
Afterwards, we had a drive around the local area and we had a wander up to the Wallace Monument which had some brilliant views.
There had been quite a bit of snow falling so we then drove up towards the snow covered hills and bought some Scottish Macaroon and tablet. Essentially, these are sugar filled treats but interestingly, Scottish Macaroon is made from mashed potato with sugar added. Surely only the Scots could work out a way to use potatoes in this way but perhaps I am selling the Irish short as they know a thing or two about potatoes so I am happy to stand corrected. Not bad at all though, I can assure you.
Finally, how about this for a town name - Bridge of Allan. Brilliant! This town is very close to Stirling and we had a really nice meal there at a Greek restaurant.
All in all, we enjoyed visiting Stirling and especially the castle.
