It took us the better part of a week to get up to Scotland, and we did the haul back to London in a day. Distances in the UK are not as long as they are in Canada, so the drive back to Birmingham took 6 hours and once there we managed to hop onto [...]
Archive > May 2003
Stirling Castle
You can see the castle from just about everywhere in Stirling. It sits on top of a great mound of volcanic rock and would be darn near impossible to take given its defenses. No one knows exactly when the castle was built, but references to it started to pop up in historical documents as early [...]
Stirling Old Town Jail
As part of our bus tour, we toured the Old Stirling Jail, which was much like the tour that we did in the London Dungeon; though this tour was much less crowded and the actors were real actors and not eager high school students. It was worth every cent and was also incredibly informative. There [...]
Bannockburn
The first stop of the day was in Bannockburn, a flat land south of Stirling where on June 24, 1314 the forces of Edward II and Robert I (the Bruce) met in what is now known as the Battle of Bannockburn, a battle over who held Stirling Castle and perhaps one of the most decisive [...]
The Wallace Monument
The last stop of the day was the Wallace Monument. The monument was built in Victorian times (1869) after a tide of Scottish nationalism hit the nation. It is (obviously) a monument for the freedom fighter William Wallace, made famous by Mel Gibson in Braveheart. This is the tower that became known (be only me [...]
