Sam & Georgia's Travels

Breakfast was an interesting event for Sam and I. We went to the Cockburn Cafe, where there was one man working, cooking and serving. We sat in silence as we listened to him microwave our meals and possibly even sneeze into them. You could here him texting on his phone, and when he did decide to lighten the mood, he just played music on his phone. Despite this, the food was actually really good!

And so the tour of Scotland begins, Dad is acting as our tour guide, making sure we see all the best bits.
We visited Stirling Castle, a prominent castle during the hundreds of years the Scottish spent fighting the British. This place gave an insight into how the medieval people lived, we saw where the King stayed when he was at Stirling, as well as where all the servants lived. Though some areas had been left, many had been restored to look as similar to how it would have looked back in it’s time as possible.
Next stop was the beautiful Doune Castle. This place had special significance for me, because I grew up looking at a time model of this place. Doune Castle was were Mum and Dad got married, 25 years ago. It was awesome to be able to visit Doune and the castle was amazing! it had been left reasonably untouched since it’s use as a castle, with only repairs to make it more accessible to tourists. Dad said that we were able to see much more than 25 years ago, back then most of it had been closed off. We were able to climb up to the top levels and see a whole range of the different rooms.
I loved Doune Castle. One because I had always wanted to go and see it and finally got too, but also because it had been restored and touched so little that we were able to fully understand just how old this place was and how much things have changed since people inhabited this castle.

We spent the night in the small ski town of Aviemore, though there is no snow around the town was full of visitors. It was a lovely little town, with picturesque views.