Once we arrived at the Edinburgh train station we made our way to the car rental area and picked up a car. The agent said we could leave our luggage in the car and walk around the city a bit, so that is what we did. Our first stop was at a nearby pub he suggested, the Brewdog, where we enjoyed burgers and drinks on the patio. From there we walked up the Royal Mile to the castle. Tours were sold out for the day so we started back down. We stopped at the Hard Rock for a drink (No. 40), then walked back to the rental car and drove to Glasgow and checked into our hotel.
This morning after breakfast we drove about 45 minutes northeast to Doune. We toured Doune Castle, home to Duke Robert of Albany, a powerful lord in the 15th century. It was used to film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the series Outlander. We spent about an hour touring the castle, and could have spent another hour if we wanted to hike the paths to the village and back. When we went to leave the car wouldn’t shift out of reverse. We called the car rental company and they said they’d send someone out in an hour or two, so we sat in the car and worked on contingency plans. My plan had been to visit Stirling next then drive back to Glasgow to check out downtown. On Sunday we were going to drive along Loch Ness to Inverness, then stay the night in Aberdeen. All that went out the window. Instead we waited 3 hours for a tow truck to come and then he drove us to a lot in Falkirk. We did get to see the Kelpies and Stirling castle from the motorway as we drove to the lot. From there we had to take a taxi and a train and an Uber to get back to our hotel. By then it was after 5 o’clock. We were able to cancel our hotel in Aberdeen and extend our Glasgow hotel one day. We tried booking a day tour up to the Highlands for tomorrow but they were all sold out. We decided to have dinner at the hotel restaurant and just check out Glasgow in the morning.
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