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Cycle Path to Stirling
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We said a quick goodbye to Romy, waking the new mom at 8:30 am. Oops. Her 3-month old son is a sweet baby, but sleep is a prized commodity when you are a new parent. We cycled about 4 miles down the road for some breakfast and coffee in Killin. We'd heard there was a cycle path a good portion of the way we were headed that we could pick up outside of town. As we came to the first junction with the road, the path looked ...
Stirling to Wallace to Campbell to Falkirk
... to a peak called Demiet, which is 1450'. We did that twice and said we did a Munro once!
After we reunited with our travel guide, navigator and island hopping planner, we headed to Dollar Glen in our van. Our plan was to let me walk up the glen while they would drive up and we would meet at the Castle. We were travelling up a very narrow road when Sheila stopped the van and said that is where the trail to Castle Campbell starts I think. I looked for a trailhead
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The Howling
... time was right to take a nice picture of Issy the little princess dog in the middle of a load of bluebells with a scenic mountainous backdrop. The result is in the photos for this entry. Hopeless. By the time I'd stuffed her in vaguely the right place and lined up the camera she had sodded off to chew the head off a passing weasel or some such nicety.
On reaching the monument I lashed the hounds to a picnic table and climbed the spiral staircase to the top. Once there ...
Edinburgh
... vaults' that exist under the South Bridge of Edinburgh, so we headed off on that. Our tour guide was great - she knew so much about the history of these vaults that go seven storeys down underground. But at times it did feel like an information overload. We were taken through so many of the underground rooms, and it was incredible to think that people worked 12hr+ days down there - the air was very stale, and there is ...
Jean-Francois conduit bien, même à droite!
... de notre premier Bed and Breakfast est quelque peu défraichie. Elle bénificierait d'une nouvelle tapisserie et d'un couvre-lit au goût du jour. Ça dérange un peu Audrey, d'autant plus que les Écossais ne mettent pas de drap dans le lit (ils s'habrillent directement avec le couvre-lit). Ça fera pour les deux prochaines nuits, après on passe à un autre. En espérant que le prochain soit mieux.
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