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the pineapple
The castle viewed from the Wallace Monument
me with the castle behind me
Stirling Castle (Scotland, U.K.)
anyone knows how can i get from lochearnhead to stirling on a sunday???
will it be possible to hire a car from stirling and then leave it in glasgow airport???
By public transport: http://www.travelinescotland.com/
Do you have to go via Stirling? You could plan a journey from Lochearnhead to Glasgow. Using the website given www.travelinescotland.com you could travel from Lochearnhead to Glasgow in about the same time as you can travel from Lochearnhead to Stirling, all depending on the time of day. If you arrive by coach at Glasgow and you need to get to the airport, the airport coach leaves from the bus station you arrive at.
Your easiest and quickest route is to head West to Crianlarich on the Dundee-Oban Citylink service which will take about 20 minutes.
http://www.citylink.co.uk/uploads/Perth2Oban.pdf
From there you can catch several different services onto Glasgow such as the Skye or Oban buses.
http://www.citylink.co.uk/timetables.html
This gets you into Buchanan Street bus station where you can catch a bus onto the airport.
Stirling Hostel is a great place to meet people. John and I went to Stirling for a few days. The first night we were in the hostel we met a German girl (Barbara), a guy from New Jersey, and an Aussie guy. We hung out when it rained, went grocery shopping together, spent about 3 hours in a Chinese restaurant one afternoon, and had a generally good time.
Stirling Albion (The Binos) are the local league football team. One of the more recent clubs (dating only to 1945) they are a semi-professional team, currently in the Second Division (third level). Crowds are generally only a few hundred - the makeup of Stirling and area is that there is not such an interest in football as there might be (too posh) and those that do follow football support Rangers (or to a lesser extent, Celtic). The Binos have seldom been over troubled with achievement, their past days of top flight football unlikely to return.
They used to have a ground almost in the town centre, at Annfield. This is now covered in houses as Albion were one of the first teams to go 'out of town'; the current ground, Forthbank, is only about a mile from the centre (though it seems further). It is a tidy, if somewhat characterless place, capacity about 4000. If the game isn't up to much, there is a good view of the Ochils - you may even see the paragliders.
A big pineapple shaped building owned by the National Trust. Its a few miles from Stirling, situated in the old walled garden of an estate. There isn't really much there but its kind of fun to see. In the olden days there would have been greenhouses to grow pineapples in but of course now they are just imported from abroad and not really grown in the UK anymore. Nowadays you can rent the building as a holiday let and visitors can wander the gardens & woodland
The Trossachs are 'the Highlands in Miniature' and lie to the north and west of Stirling. The tourists centres are the small town of Callander (15 miles from Stirling) and the village of Aberfoyle (20 miles). Both have very picturesque settings, but actually lie on the edge of the Trossachs. So the main way tourists will normally experience the Trossachs (even the sound of the word encapsulates its very Scottishness) is the drive between them. From Aberfoyle, climbing quickly into the Dukes Pass, winding through above Loch Drunkie and Loch Achray, past Ben Venue to Loch Katrine. Then back, below Ben An, past Loch Venachar, through Brig O' Turk and Kilmahog, to Callander. As a drive, this is only about 20 miles, takes maybe about 40 minutes, and gives you a very concentrated blast of Scottish countryside. But what's your hurry? Stop a few places, stretch you legs, enjoy the views and the fresh air.
If you are based in Glasgow or Edinburgh, and don't have time to tour the Highlands, but wish to see 'the country', then this is the place for you. You can also more than fulfil your tourist shopping needs in Callander (with Kilmahog, woolen mill central) or Aberfoyle.
If you want to stay, there are numerous choices in Callander, some in Aberfoyle, various B&Bs dotted around, campsites, other hotels along the very 'away from it all' road from Aberfoyle to Loch Lomond (Inversnaid), and the Loch Achray Hotel right in the heart.
Much of the Trossachs is in The Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, which in turn is in the new Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
Did I mention the weather? Of course, in Scotland, we get plenty of it. Midsummer afternoon, and the divide of the mist down the glen was very visible. It soon caught up with us and it would be fair to say we passed from being in the mist to right in the clouds, cloudbase along the Ochils often being around 400m. Visibility at the summit was down to around 30m. So be aware, and be careful.
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