ATTENTION: Heather's Dad, you should probably go rent Braveheart immediately and stop embarrassing your daughter. Honestly.
Stirling, a mere hour outside of Edinburgh, is a beautiful city with a super old castle, humungous and cool graveyard, and of course, the William Wallace Monument. We are, in fact, staying at the Willy Wallace Hostel, and it is one of the better hostels we have encountered on the trip.
Last night we walked the 10-15 minute trip up to Stirling castle, which was closed, but we got some wicked good pictures of the surrounding area. The hill has been fortified for like 2500 years, and served as one of the primary military strongholds in Scotland for centuries. We also saw the church where the infant son of Mary Queen of Scots, King James VI was crowned.
Today we're going to the Monument, which is very exciting, and also, get ready for it... Doune Castle.
What is Doune Castle you ask?
It is the castle from Monty Python's The Search for the Holy Grail. Dad, I know you've seen that movie. WE ARE SO EXCITED!! I didn't even know it was a real castle, but it is, and we're going there!! We are so cool!
We'll let you know how it goes.
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We might add pictures here.
Then again, we might not. Michelle's at camp now, so it's really all up to me. But, you may have noticed that I tend to be the more diligent blogger anyway. So, probably I'll post some pictures in the next few days. We took 1,990 of them, after all.
Quotable Quotes
- "Your hair looks better down, it frames your face better" - The Creepy Rugby Coach, after trying to pimp out his players to us, after Heather pulled out her braids.
- "That sheep looks like it's trying to jump over the other sheep and it can't quite make it" - Michelle, during the busride across Mull.
- "They really just look like big Mercedes Benz logos rotating around and around" - Heather, on the windmills in Europe.
- "Dammit, I'm gonna eat this $18 pancake come hell or high water." Heather, talking about the Dutch pancake which she did not, in fact, finish.
- "You don't even have to queue. You're just like P-Diddy, really, you just walk right in." - Bus Tour Guide in London, talking about fast-track tickets to London Attractions.
things we learned about German movie theatres
- 1. There are assigned seats. Don´t just dump your ticket in your bag as soon as you get past the ticket guy.
- 2. You can drink beer in the movie theatre
- 3. There are at least 30 minutes of commercials before the movie starts.
- 4. There is an intermission. Even if the movie doesn´t call for it, they´re just gonna press pause and wait 10 minutes to try to manipulate you into buying stuff. Well, it didn´t work on us, suckers!
8 comments:
Can't wait for you to get home so that I can bask in your coolness! Doune Castle. Be sure to have a shrubbery along just in case . . .
sweet. i want to see those pictures...
slash, i work is overrated... i want to run away.
You should sing this when you're there:
"We're knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're able. We do routines and chorus scenes with footwork impec-cable, We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and Spam a lot. We're knights of the Round Table, our shows are for-mi-dable. But many times we're given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able, We're opera mad in Camelot, we sing from the diaphragm a lot. In war we're tough and able, Quite in-de-fa-ti-gable. Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable. It's a busy life in Camelot."
Just thought it might amuse you!
Ni!!!
Well done Amanda!
Ni!
PS What about the immor(t)al line:
"I get to push the Pram alot" ?
I triple dog dare you to gallop up to that castle clacking coconuts together.
You might also need a herring bone. And beware of appendage-less knights who are shooting what seems to be Tang out of where their arms and legs should be.
"I feel happy!"
HEY Girls!!
Very cool! I can't wait to see the pictures - and I think I might actually rent the Holy Grail movie tonight... Send me a postcard! I'm jelous - I seen the ones that other folks around here got. I feel left out!
See ya in a few weeks!
I've been attempting to comment for like...5 million days, but apparently I need to be a part of something to post. Therefore, I have made a blog, then forgotten the username and password, and had to make a new one..and somehow ended up making a gmail account ALL to say that i love reading your blogs, I think they are hilarious, it sounds like you guys are having a wonderful time and i am very very jealous.
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