My tour of Scottland

Yesterday i went for a tour of Scotland.
This is some of the pictures from the tour

this is Hamish the 11 year old Highland Cow:


He came running as soon as he saw our tourguide with potatoes and brockoli.
He really liked that :)


This is the Wallace monument.

This monument honours one of the two great heroes of Scottland; William Wallace. William Wallace was a gerrilja warrior and gets credit for starting the rebellion against King Edward 1. He won an important battle at Stirling, but was crushed at fallkirk, and was later captured after he probably was betrayed by a friend.
The other great hero of scotland Robert the Bruce took up William Wallace's fight after his death, and lead the Scots to freedom.
William Wallace wasn't actually Braveheart, that was Robert the Bruce.
When Robert the Bruce lay in his death bed, he asked his friend to take his heart to the holy land, but on the journey to the holy land their ship was shipwrecked and they landed in spain. Spanish soldiers atacked Bruce's friends. Before thay ran towards the soldiers to counter their attack, the one carrying the heart threw it against the soldiers screaming "lead on my brave heart!"

This is the really bad statue of Mel Gibson as William Wallace

I don't think even Mel likes that one :)

The fencing you can see behind it is something that is put around the statue at night, because the local people has vowed to throw it in the nearest loch if they can get their hands on it.

this is a celtic cross from the church in Sterling


Sterling Castle.

it has never been taken by force, and lies on a netural fortress with only one side to defend.

This is a king outside the castle, we didn't get any history on him, so I have no idea who he is, but it was a cool statue