Up 'Side Doune

Out for a quiet Sunday drive, that wasn't so quiet as it seemed everyone else and their four wheeled tin cans had the same idea.

Planned a trip to Camelot, or Doune Castle as it's signposted, when we passed this memorial and stopped off as I'd been meaning to add this to my blip journal for a while. It commemorates Sir David Stirling who founded the the UK's Special Air Service (SAS) in 1941. Will no doubt head back when the weather's better as there looks to be some spectacular views from up here. But, today, it was a bitt too grey and breezy (even the Phantom Major's overcoat was flapping in the wind, and that's cast in bronze) to hang around too long admiring the vista.

In fact, it was so cold, we skipped the trip to the Monty Python film set and headed to a nearby cafe for a mug of tea and a bowl of steaming hot soup instead.