"It's a simple question of weight ratios; A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut... It could be carried by an African swallow!"
That's right, we went there.. We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and decided to go find Doune Castle for ourselves - turns out it's only half an hour away from Stirling.
We got on our fake horses and galloped all the way there!
The huge fireplace in the kitchen >
Because The Holy Grail was such a high budget film... Doune Castle is the only castle used in the whole movie - so the many different places seen are just Doune being shot from different angles - brilliant! It was neat to see all the rooms and put the whole movie together while quoting King Arthur all day.
This is the room in the swamp castle from the Holy Grail (with the goofy guards). The prince falls out this window! ^
Team Canada makes it to the top.
I'll tag on a few pictures of Glasgow from earlier in the week. We got up-close and personal with some 'Heeland Coos' and enjoyed the sound of bagpipes and drums filling the streets in the city center:
This weekend I've locked myself in my room to write a history essay, woohoo! As you can tell, I've been working very hard on it. Making endless cups of tea, editing pictures, cleaning my room, going on facebook, and updating this blog has convinced me that I'm being productive. But, I've run out of things to do which tells me I should stop procrastinating and get to it... after I do some laundry.
Talk to you again soon. Cheers!
I see that you don't get a complimentary set of coconuts with the price of admission to the castle, but it looks like you managed to get into the Monty Python spirit regardless. What a cute castle--the size of Craigievar (sp?)but not in the same "move-in" condition. You should be in the mood for writing about history, after all of your historical outings!
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