Whiskey, Battles, & Castles: Scotland Day 2

Glengoyne Distillery window

Scotland: Glasgow, Glengoyne, Stirling & Bannockburn

Day 2: Started our day with a glass of single malt scotch whiskey from Glengoyne Distillery {at 9 am!!}. What a wake-up call! From there we headed to Stirling Castle. Roamed the castle turned fortress and then made our way to town for a bite to eat & beer. Next, Bannockburn battlefield to see where Robert the Bruce took victory! We strolled again tonight through Glasgow one last time because we are off tomorrow to Isle of Skye. I might come home 40 pounds heavier. I love the food and the flowers! Actually, just send me my children. I might just not come home.

Glengoyne Distillery is the most romantic and picturesque. Not to mention what great whiskey ( and I don’t even like whiskey and still had a glass of it at 9 am and then proceeded to buy 5 bottles!). Now every time my husband and I are at a liquor store, we always look for it (they sell it at Total Wine). There is just something even more special to see a bottle of scotch whiskey on a shelf in South Carolina, and know that you’ve actually been to the distillery almost 4,000 miles away in Scotland. You’ve met the workers and walked the grounds. You’ve smelled the barley, water, and yeast that has been transformed. Something like poetry.

Spirits pepped, we toured Stirling Castle. This might have been one of my favorites. It wasn’t the prettiest castle we saw in Scotland, but scenery and town (and what a lovely town!), and it what meant to Scotland, were all reasons it was loved by me. The steep rock walls that represented Scottish independence and  protected and housed the Kings and Queens of Scotland.

We visited Bannockburn as well and then made our way back to Glasgow. This would be one thing, if we had done this on our own that I would have changed. We felt like one night in Glasgow was enough, and there was so much more we wanted to have explored.