Scotland

Scotland was great, beautiful country, good people, and great beer.

 This is the dining room for the royalty in Stirling Castle

 From the Stirling Castle, looking over the city of Stirling you can see the William Wallace Monument.

I'm standing on the frontal defense wall of the castle with the kings quarters in the background.  They are currently working on the buildings interior to replicate what it would have looked like.

 This is the front gate of the Edinburgh Castle at night

Once through the front gate, there is another gate to get past.

 View of Edinburgh below the castle.

 Looking over a standard cannon in the castle.

This was the big daddy cannon near the top of the castle.  This thing shot slugs of metal the size of a basketball.

This is the innermost part of the complex.

 

 After a train ride north, I walked through Stonehaven to Dunnottar Castle.  They had a nice harbor.

 

This is Dunnottar Castle, just outside of Stonehaven.  The English attacked this castle for eight months trying to destroy the Scottish crown jewels but the Scottish survived.

Good luck trying to sneak around.

If you tried attacking the front door, you met this wall full of windows and archers.

 There was some nice grass lawns in the castle, though i doubt they looked this good back in the day.

 Heading out.