Stirling Castle

After a hectic couple of weeks we are off on holiday this week to Kenmore. It was a gorgeous morning so we decided to follow the scenic route and head over the Erskine Bridge and take the Balloch road to Stirling. We stopped off for an excellent lunch at the Rob Roy Inn in Buchlyvie. The Rob Roy Inn dates from 1820 and is named after the famous Rob Roy MacGregor who had many escapades in this area.

After lunch we continued on our journey and when we arrived at Stirling the sky over the Castle was amazing and the fields were bathed in a beautiful sea of yellow buttercups.

Stirling Castle is definitely Scotland's finest castle, with its stunning Renaissance architecture, it sits high on an extinct volcano overlooking open countryside below.

Stirling became the strategic military key to the kingdom during the 13th and 14th century Wars of Independence and was the favourite royal residence of many of the Stuart Monarchs.

The Castle towers over some of the most important battlefields of Scotland's past including Stirling Bridge, the site of William Wallace's victory over the English in 1297, and Bannockburn where Robert the Bruce defeated the same foe in the summer of 1314.

After our scenic tour we are now in Kenmore watching the swallows create aerobatic ballet around the loch.