Day seven Monday 19th Early start for our run ashore we are taking a trip that involves a coach trip. After breakfast we assembled in the theatre then we went to the dock yard and boarded a coach that drove us to Stirling. On arrival we had choice of either visiting the castle or the town. We chose the castle and as members of English Heritage we were admitted in free. It was a very interesting place. We learned a great deal about the history of the castle, Ranging from William Wallace and the battle of Stirling, through Mary Queen of Scots, Jacobite rebellion to its use as a barrack for National Service soldiers as recent as the 1950s It’s now under the care of Heritage Scotland ( hence our free admission) who have gone to great lengths to restore the place back to its former splendour. We had a very interesting walking tour with interesting explanations of all the eras it covered. We left Stirling and drove to Falkirk to have a short canal trip and experience the Falkirk Wheel....
We arrived at Le Harve early in the morning and we awoke to find we have tied up. We had breakfast the disembarked and took the shuttle bus into town. We were bitterly disappointed as Le Harve has nothing to offer. We wandered about aimlessly and the only thing of interest, to me anyway, was the memorial. Being in France it was slightly different in that it wasn’t only for combatants but for members of the Resistance. There was also a smaller memorial to those killed in the Algerian conflict of the early sixties. We stopped for a drink at a typical French cafe/bar then decided to go back to the ship to have lunch. After lunch we all we up to the sun deck and stretched out on the Sun loungers. After we’d had enough of that we went our cabins to cool down and put the final bits away ready for collection later. It was a tremendously hot day so after a cool shower we went down for dinner. Every meal was brilliant but tonight’s was designated our “end of course dinner” We then went to the ...
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