Travelodge Stirling M80

Travelled from Fife over to West of Scotland and Hamilton, just south of Glasgow.
Watched the game which Hamilton won 2-1 and really enjoyed the atmosphere. On the radio on the way home though learned that there had been fighting in the players tunnel after the game and the Police had been involved. Boys will be boys!!
Sat with the Hearts fans ... not happy! Team were poor and they can see their club is in decline!

FINALLY, a real trip!

So randomly decided on Friday to accompany my friends on their Edinburgh day trip. Not for anything touristy, just to check out the place. Heard it was gorgeous, so why not?

After crawling out of bed at 5.30am, we got to the bus terminal for 7 and hopped onto the Megabus down to Edinburgh. Nice, quiet ride, nice little nap.. until they tell us that we have to change in Dundee. Ugh.

Out ...

After about a 4 hours drive we headed straight into Glasgow. Had a quick tour of the city and then a visit to the oldest Pub in Glasgow. On sitting down we soon realised we had just sat beside the village idiot! His conversation ranged from him being in a "Black hole" in and out of Hell, his skill at being a match maker and how "Men would hit their sons and their sons would hit ...

Today, I was planning to go to the youth hostel at the castle, but the Land Rover had other plans!!!

Oh dear, game over! I popped out to start the Land Rover this morning at around 9am and the engine was smoking like a trooper and sounding a lot worse than it normally does. I called the AA at around 10:00 and they turned up at at around 10:45 from a local garage. He told me that the engine is fairly terminal (piston problem ...

... internet but low and behold I was right. The Casltecroft B&B has an amazing location just below the cliffs of the castle. This B&B even comes with a cute dog. Ok, back to the castle. It sits up on a hill in the center of Stirling and has 360 degree views for miles. They say that Stirling was the key to Scotland's defenses because it has such an incredible vantage point.

After visiting the castle we checked into our B&B and ...

... he was TOTALLY standing in a full-on “thinker” pose. “That is hardly enough to be considered a superhero”, you say? Not so. As Isabelle was giving her report on B.P.Charlie, Midgie Man began mumbling very audibly “No,” and “No tha’s not right” in the background after each of her sentences, much like a homeless person talking to his invisible friends. It was, needless to say, stellar, and Midgie Man deserves his own little ...

March 16- Up at 6:30, moving slowly but we made it to the train station for the 8:18 train to Stirling. Quick ride, easy as pie. Once we arrived, our first order of business was to get Sara to a Post Office to exchange money and me to an internet cafe for Fordham registration at 11am. After a bit of wandering, we found Sara's post office and were told that the only place to use a computer was the public library where you could use one for free. So we found our way to the ...

... with classwork to worry about as well...hence the relatively long time it took for me to sit down and post. I really actually don't have the time to be posting right now, as I should be writing/researching one of the two essays that are due next week, or even working my lines again, as I have still to be sure of them. Not a fun week for me, at all. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. I will get the essays finished and the lines down, and then come next ...

... first day of classes. And did it ever start early. 9 am lecture for my british politics class, which let me tell you, I only made it through that by drinking three cups of coffee beforehand. That class no longer intimidates me as much as it had, cause I discovered its a freshman level course. Woot! Then it was a painful wait till 4pm for my next class, my seminar for Gaels, Vikings, and Normans: History of the North ...

... lightness -of-being I stroll out onto the deck for a quick dekko at the garage. I have to see this ..................yes, it's true. Liz and Phil bring 5 of their Rolls Royce's to sea with them (obviously too rich to be bothered by what damage the salt air may do to the chromework).God alone knows what they intend to do with themall at sea like that, but my dreams tell me, " sometimes one does things like that purely because one can ".