We continued our drive through the popular town of Fort William, near where the films like Harry Potter, Highlander, Braveheart and Rob Roy, were filmed.
We stopped for lunch at Glencoe, an amazing viewpoint of quiet, ominous mountains and freshwater streams.
We then moved quickly to visit Hamish the Hairy Coo, a breed of Highland cattle originating from Scotland. Hamish wasn’t in a particularly social mood that day...
Our next and final stop was the Wallace Monument. The site has stunning views overlooking the town of Stirling.
It celebrates William Wallace who fought for Scotland’s independence from the English with no less than a 71.5 inch sword! A sword this tall, meant Wallace could not have been anything less than six feet and six inches in height.
We got back to Edinburgh just in time for an early dinner with the gang at a local pub (for Aberdeen beef burgers) before a late train back to Newcastle.
