Showing posts with label Falkland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Falkland. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 August 2013

A Scottish Walk
















The last Sunday of our holiday in Scotland we went for a walk with my parents, my sister, Liam and Jamie. We drove to just outside Falkland village to the Craigmead car park, our walk would descend through Maspie Den back into the village via the Yad waterfall around 3 miles.

We passed by East Lomond Hill on our way down and had great views on the countryside, the boys are great fun just running in front of everyone. Eventually it gets to be quite muddy and we descended down to the waterfall, carefully trying not to fall. It was quite busy and the paths were quite narrow, once at the waterfall you can walk behind them and we all got our photos taken.

We continued down the path which it did kind of criss-cross back and forth over the Maspie burn, we came across come nice wooden bridges.

Then we came to a tunnel, the boys collected many sticks to amuse themselves, we noticed that lots of trees had been uprooted, I guess there had been many storms this spring.

We then walked through the Falkland Estate and into the village where we headed off to find a cafe for our well deserved refreshments.

A lovely way to finish our holiday as the next day we headed back to Zurich, next time we are in Scotland will be Christmas.

Monday, 13 May 2013

Falkland Village















My last day in Scotland we went to Falkland for a walk and a look around the lovely village. First we did our walk which I will post about later on, then we stopped for some refreshments in a nice coffee shop. I had the sticky toffee pudding with cream, having had a fair share of scones over the last week, it was time to taste something different and it was delicious!

The village was really lovely, but the main attraction of the place is Falkland Palace, as it was late we could only see the outside and some of the gardens. The palace was built by two kings James IV and James V replacing the old castle from before, during 1501 and 1541. It was a favorite retreat of the Stuart Kings and Queens, including Mary Queen of Scots.

I have visited the Palace but a long time ago, afterwards we continued walking around and saw an interesting shop. If you have old violins, fiddles and cellos this is place to go to sell it or buy one, maybe they deal in other instruments too.