Day 13, June 26, 2024 Stirling, Scotland to Aberdeen, Scotland

We had the opportunity last evening to put in our made to order breakfast orders. Colin is quite a chef with many years experience and created a lovely adaptation of a full Scottish breakfast for us, including edible flowers. There was eggs and lots of types of sausages and ham,bacon, and porridge or oatmeal, juice, grapefruit, toast , potato scones, coffee, and tea. More food than any two people can eat, but we tried our best. We felt fortified for the day, heading off to go to the farthest points north that we will be on this trip, to Aberdeen Scotland.

Our host offered us a lift to the train station which we appreciated. It was a rather a cool gloomy day and it was nice to be dropped off rather than walk through the city streets. We had a lovely time in Stirling and feel like we got to have many good experiences here.

We had worked out our train schedule earlier and were able to negotiate the ticket machine to print them. Each place and railway company has its own different ways with the tickets and how we figure out which train to go on. So far we’ve gone on about 10 trains, And only one of them was running late which caused us to miss a second train and have an extra hours wait. Not bad for using a lot of public transportation.

The train trip was an easy 2 1/2 hours without needing to change trains which we appreciated.

Once we arrived, we were able to walk about a half mile to our Airbnb place where we could drop off our suitcases early because we were going on a walking tour of the city, Aberdeen. We very much enjoy these walking tour led by local guides to give you a quick understanding of the history and the industry of the area. Sometimes they’re full of all kinds of juicy facts sometimes they’re kind of corny. But always worth doing. The tour of about an hour and a half was just right for us, it was a combination of street art, stories of the 900 year city history, and local people. We learned things we would never have guessed having just arrived in Aberdeen.

Then we walked back to our Airbnb and settled in for the evening. We did a little bit of laundry and mostly had a chance to rest. All of this travel is rather tiring. We cooked frozen pizza and went to bed early.