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Friday night in Edinburgh means different things to different folks. Judging by some of the drunken ramblings of people at bus stops I’m not sure why I would want to be here anytime for any reason.

I’ll admit that is probably too harsh an assessment from a sober visitor who is no longer used to big city life but really, some of the language and opinions that my children were subjected to in the public domain were less than ideal.

Anyhoo:

• Dinner with friends
• Rampant reminiscing
• Skating on ice
• Shopping the Christmas market

Friday in Edinburgh

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Two years ago Andrew and I had effectively a personal tour of Stirling Castle. We were there on a cold, damp, foggy day and we were in the company of Ann and Mike who happen to be Blue Badge Guides.

So you could say Andrew knows a lot about Stirling Castle. He certainly knows enough to politely decline the invitation to visit it again this year! 

However Patty and Emily have not visited Stirling for a number of years and wanted to see the work that has been done to the site in recent years. Thus Andrew was dispatched to a hill in Lanarksire with Karen, Lindsay, and several dogs in search of snow and adventure while we three headed to Stirling.

Andrew hill walking photos to follow when I get them, in the meantime here are a few photos from the Stirling Castle visit.

Stirling Castle

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Our Grand Tour is progressing at such a pace that I am having difficulty finding time to publish a roundup of our activities so please forgive the out of sequence postings.

From our time in Northumberland, at Vindolanda, there is a river in the gorge by the museum/gift shop which was flowing orange last time we were there. No orange water this time but here is a picture of the bridge over the Chineley Burn – bridge #9

This morning we dropped Andy off with Karen to go hill walking and added the frosty bridge over Coulter Burn to the list as bridge #10.

On the way back from Stirling we stopped at the Dobbie’s Garden Center roundabout and recorded bridge #11 on the A84. It did not have any descriptive signs so I suspect that it was the bridge over the River Forth before the road became the A84 and had more than horses and carts crossing over it!

Bridge Update #3

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