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On our third day in Edinburgh united kingdom flag we were scheduled for an all day bus tour. Edinburgh is great but we wanted to see as much of Scotland as possible and so that required a trip out of the city. We booked a tour of Loch Lomond a great loch out of the city that showed the amazing Scottish countryside. It included a stop at the Loch and also a stop at a castle, how could we say no?
We got up early and walked to the Royal Mile to Haggis Adventure united kingdom flag Tour (yes that is it s real name). We met up with our tour guide/bus driver this awesome woman named Jill/Gill, never did find out the proper spelling of her name. She introduced herself and where we would be going and soon we were off! ..well we would have been except we had to take a slight detour. Apparently this school group that was named Team Argentina was supposed to be on this tour but were either to stupid or to entitled to realize that they had to go to the tour office, they though they would be picked up. Well team Argentina must have dropped some serious money because we did in fact pick them up. I thought it was amazing and very nice of the tour company to do so, seriously could you see any Boston tour going out of there way to pick you up because united kingdom flag you were too stupid to go to the pick up point? They would laugh there ass off then drive away. But we were not in Boston so we did in fact pick them up. So once the surly and bored Argentinian youths united kingdom flag we were finally off!
Once we were on the road the view slowly changed, from lots of buildings to lots of sheep. Seriously there are sheep everywhere in the country! While on the road tour guide Jill was awesome she would either tell us about historical events or people that happened the areas we were driving through or she would play Scottish united kingdom flag music from her iPod, music that would range from traditional united kingdom flag to modern it was sort of amazing. Our first stop was at the William Wallace monument. William Wallace was a proud Scottish hero but most people know him as Mel Gibson in Braveheart. However tour guide Jill told us about how he and Robert the Bruce fought Edward the Second and the battles he was in, it was really fascinating. We sadly could not go up to the monument because it was to early but it sure looked nice we also got tea which was also nice.
By mid day we made our way to Loch Lomond. Because it is a big Loch we arrived in the middle united kingdom flag of a quaint little town. The rest of the group paid money to go on a boat tour but we did not feel like paying 10 pounds for a hour boat tour, so instead we took a very nice walk. It was quite pleasant we had some snacks, took some pictures and saw so many happy doggies united kingdom flag it was really great.
Highland Cows!! Or as there called Heilan Coo! They are like regular cows just shaggier. They came right up to our group and were awesome! I got to pet one and Becca got licked and almost friendly gored by one. They even had baby coos as well! After saying good bye to the lovely Coos we were off again.
Our final stop on the tour was Doune Castle. Doune Castle has been around since the Thirteenth Century,  however Doune castle is most famously remembered for being in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was used in the scene with the French soldiers and the Trojan Rabbit. That little fact aside it s a great looking castle, very well maintained and had a lovely view from the top.
With the castle done our tour was over and we made our way back to the city. We made sure to thank tour guide Jill and gave her an awesome review. We decided to end the night with a visit to yet another united kingdom flag pub!
This pub is called Cloisters  and I think it was my favorite pub of the entire trip. The reason it s called Cloisters is because it was in fact a real cloister of a church. The church united kingdom flag is still there today they just decided to turn the cloister into a pub. It was small but not cramped and had a very home like atmosphere. Also Cloisters had a ton of different local brews on tap and it was sort of like a game on which one to pick. We had a lovely night catching up with Becca s friend Sam. And with another pub down we were done with our third day of Scotland.
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