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No trip up north is worth it if you don't visit at least a piece of Hadrian's wall (although you should avoid the bit we went to) Birdoswald Roman fort. Now where do I begin. We paid nearly 10 pounds each to enter. They had a little museum (very little, more space was given to the children's area where you could recreate a section of Hadrian's wall out of Lego, my picture will be coming up) and the actual fort was non existent. There were a few low walls left, and a few boards which actually told you nothing, and were more for the kids to interact with. We actually stopped and talked to an Australian couple, who were just as miffed as we were. Now I know full well, after two thousand years, there's not going to be much of the roman wall and fort left, but to pay 10 pounds for it was extortionate, especially when you consider that in Turkey was I paying half of that for an entire Roman city. Don't bother going, it's really not worth it. There's better pr...

Stirling's a great place for a day trip, and is actually really accessible from both Glasgow and Edinburgh. It's got a large (sometimes questionably restored castle) as well as the wallace monument, which I really enjoyed. The castle is a large, sprawling complex of buildings, although many of them are choked with other visitors, this is clearly a place where everyone comes for the their holidays. It's a great castle to roam about it, there's not too many signs forcing you to go a certain route, you can see as much or as little as you like.  It has it's charms, and has several gift shops and a little cafe to sit and rest your feet for a bit. The fudge looked really nice, but considering we had brought our own body weight in fudge from Scarborough and the fact the car was full of it meant we didn't get any more. More interesting, and certainly more dramatic is the Wallace monument, just outside the city. Its a huge tower, build to celebrate the l...

Glasgow is nothing like Edinburgh. Edinburgh has charm, uniformity and a nice pace to it. Glasgow is brutal, a mass of industry and its industrial heritage shows. It's brazen and busy, and is unapologetic about it. Which I think is the reason why I liked it more than Edinburgh, it had more to do, had a more cosmopolitan feel, and had that big city vibe that I just adore. The best thing in Glasgow without a doubt is the Huntarian gallery and museums. Now there are several galleries and museums to chose from, or you can visit them all, its up to you. The historical gallery was the best though. It had some amazing artefacts from the Antonine wall, which was a similar wall to Hadrians wall, just further North, it had hundreds of medical specimen jars, with organs, embryos, babies, as well as having artefacts from the industrial revolution. It was a very interesting museum, and was well worth visiting, especially on a rainy day like it was when we there.       ...

From fort William, we were headed to Glasgow, with one planned stop in the journey, and another that was quite spontaneous. On the way there, we passed this really incredible dam and saw more of Scotland's exquisite scenery. The air is so clear and fresh there, you want to just stand with your arms open wide, breathing deeply while the winds blows your hair over your face. I'ts an incredible feeling to be so free and wild.  First of all, we visited the Highland Wildlife Safari park. I'd never been to a drive yourself around kind of style safari park, so it was a new experience for me. I'd heard horror stories about when people visited monkey world, and came away with thousands of pounds worth of damage from the monkeys attacking the cars. But this was a peaceful and rather civilised affair. The animals seemed relaxed and friendly, and didn't seem to bothered that we were sat watching them.                       ...