ON THE ROAD TO EDINBURGH
"A6 - Driving on the left, under the clouds, in Summer"
"MOFFAT - The Moffat Ram... In 1875 the businessman William Colvin decided to present a statue of a Blackface Ram and a fountain to Moffat. The Ram was cast by William Brodie, the sculptor, without ears - 'it has nae lugs' - an omission that led to folklore that William Brodie committed suicide"
"MOFFAT - Garden, no reason to commit suicide"
"TWEEDSMUIR - a magical place to visit"
EDINBURGH
"The DUGALD STEWART MONUMENT at 7:00 AM. Everything seems a bit distorted"
"CALTON HILL, the best vantage point in town. Noel, from Australia, was arriving"
"ROYAL MILE, Princes Street, on the way to the Castle and to the Military Tattoo"
"HOLYROODHOUSE - Founded as a monastery in 1128, the Palace is The Queen's official residence in Scotland"
TRAVELLING FURTHER NORTH
"QUEENSFERRY BRIDGE, now known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was opened on 4 March 1890"
"STIRLING CASTLE - Situated at the head of Stirling's Old Town, mounted high on an old volcanic outcrop, it is the most strategically important of all the castles in Scotland. No one can confirm when Stirling castle was first built, but references to it begin to appear in historical records of the early 12th Century"
"STIRLING - Three generations, and flowers!"
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