After breakfast this morning we caught a taxi over to the tourist office to await our tour of Loch Lomond , the Trosachs, and Stirling Castle. It was a small tour bus and not full( there were 8 o the tour) so very relaxed and just the perfect thing for this beautiful sunny day. We headed out of Glasgow crossing the Clyde River, the main shipping river in Glasgow, and into the countryside. Within about 45 minutes were were at the shores of Loch Lomond for our first look-see. It's difficult to describe all the sites we saw. The day was wonderful for siteseeing. We even fit in a one hour cruise on the Loch from a town called Balach, and could see Ben Lomond, the tallest mountain in Great Britain. Not fog, and no low clouds. Only white clouds in a blue sky followed us all day along with stories of how the song “You take the high road, and I'll take the low road” was written by soldiers who were imprisoned – one waiting to die (the high road) and one waiting to be released (the low road – walking home).
Our driver was full of information and laughs as we traveled through the highland and the lowlands, separated by a fault line. It was a full day from 9am to 6 PM with several stops, the last being at Stirling Castle, originally built by King Robert the Bruce, and torn down and rebuilt about 3-4 times since. A monument to William Wallace was just across the valley from Stirling Castle. Very impressive. And again the scenery was very impressive.
While this post is short, the day was full of sites around Glasgow. I really loved getting out of town and into the country again.
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