 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm in the Scottish City of Sterling. I've come up to the top of the hill above the city centre, which is down there. We're going to have a look around at some of the more interesting parts to find up here. So we're going to go up to where the castle is. We'll have a look at that. We're not actually going to go in, but we'll first start with this ruins building here. This is called the Mars Wall. It's a townhouse. It would have been where the Earl, who the King, you know, would have had to look after to be the keeper of the castle. This is where Hiddah lives. Hiddah lives upstairs. These little windows and doors downstairs. These have been shops. So what we're going to do, we'll go up and have a look. Because I can get across the road. We'll go through there. You can see there's a church. Yeah, we'll go past the church. There's a huge cemetery. But if you have a look just through this window, I'll put the camera through because I can't get through the bars. And then we'll go and have a look from above. So you can see all these gargoyles above me. So it's quite a good example of 15th century townhouse. You can see the grand gates just here. And there's the church. Well, it's the only city that doesn't actually have a cathedral. But I'll just show you what this building would look like, the Mars Walk. So that's it there. So we've looked. You can see the castle above. We'll walk up through the cemetery to the castle. And then I've got another idea where I'd like to go to. So this is the cemetery. I don't walk around here at night the other day. It's a bit spooky. I didn't make a video, but it was quite... The church was all lit up, which was quite fun. So if you have a look now, you can see the other side of the Mars Walk. So really, it's just the facade that survives. But we can go in some of those rooms. So from that gate house, that's the other side. I don't know where those people are. So let's go around here. And in this cemetery now, there's too much about all the graves, but there are some rather unusual graves and tombs. So certainly have a look at them. That's the rooms. So we're kind of probably on where the Earl would have lived. These down there, that's those shops I said about. So that would come in off the street over here. So if you look out this window, you can see... That's where we were a moment ago. So it's quite exciting. It's a pretty big church. I've never actually been inside. It wasn't open when I tried to get inside. So that'll have to be a visit for another day. Oh, yeah, this must be the towers. There's no window on that side. Now I've got to go through this narrow area here. So yeah, if I stand here in between the two towers, you'll just see that. The gargoyles and the tree bottom on the tree, which looks nice at this time of year. We'll go through here. What have we got? Oh, look, that's inside one of the towers. You can see down here, we can't actually go into there. So there's just a nice little viewpoint up here. And this part of the city. But let's now continue up above the... through the cemetery, and we'll make our way round to the castle. And then the place I'm planning to finish the video at, is called the Beheading Stone. So it's a stone on a hill, where they used to behead people. They don't do that anymore, but we'll kind of look, because it should also provide views, the other side of the city of Stirling. So here you are, the church, looking quite exciting. And this cemetery, it seems to just go on and on and on. Even when you get to the other side of the castle, what I suppose it's the same. But this is the Mars Walk Cemetery, and it's huge. And it's the sort of cemetery where, you know, you see very historic, big, tall graves. And like I said, I've walked round here at night. It's quite exciting. We're heading up there, see what that tree is. So have a look at the views. Already starting to be able to see behind me. The camera's not going to pick out everything I see, but we should see some nice views when we get, well, in a minute, 360. I'm assuming we'll see the castle. So look at these gray stones. Couple of the two most unusual ones. There's that one over there with, it should look pyramid. And there's this one here. It's like we're in a glass cage. Just down there behind, well, you can just see it, well, see what I mean, it's the jail, which you can visit. I've not actually visited, but you can. So that says the old Kirkyard, Kirk is what they say for church in Scotland. So yeah, see the white building, feel behind it. That's the old jail. Let's continue on up here to the top. And as you can see, that's where we've come from. See how vast this cemetery is. Really goes on quite a long way. And we get to the top. This is called the Lazy Hill. You should be able to see all around us. So you get to here. That's the town walls path. It runs around. So that's quite a nice walk if you ever in Stirling to walk up there. That starts down the city centre. Takes you right up around. Now I feel like I'm in a really high up position. See how flat though it is out there till you get to the mountains. That have all been glacial once. And there's just a few bits of volcanic rock like we're standing on now. So that's the pyramid over there. And that's the castle. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to make my way down through the graveyard and we'll go to see the car park there on the other side of the pyramid. We'll do the next bit of the video from there. So here we are now on the other side of the graveyard. That was a moment ago if we were just over there at Lady Rock. Now we've come to this pyramid. So we're going to now follow our way right around. Even a little pond there. It was also set out to be a pleasure ground as well as being a cemetery. I don't know too much about. I said all the exact dates of everything. It's more that I'm just here. So I thought I would, as I explored, I would take you with me and show you a few other things. So it's a really nice view across there. And as I said, it's nice to go up to that rock because you get such a nice view over the graveyard. It's not as many, actually I've seen it was a tomb there behind me. This corner doesn't appear to be used for burials. Maybe this is more pleasure grounds. There's like another section of the cemetery there. There's the section just there which we've already looked at. When we go to the castle, we'll go in front of the castle and we'll go down to where there's another cemetery. And then from there, there's another path which I said will take us up to the heading stone. And that's not far away. I think I can, if I hear what I think I can hear, not the motorbike, if you can hear that. I thought I just heard bagpipes playing so we might see them here. Some of that might go up the steps in front of me. So we'll leave this part of the cemetery now and go up to the castle. So that's just through here. Oh, and I just, before we ascend to those steps, look into this part of the cemetery. There's more cherry blossoms and it looks like it's snowed pink. Now let's go up the steps. It's quite an exciting cemetery to look around. If you do get something out and you'll go somewhere for these older towns, they do have some interesting cemeteries although I haven't really explored that many of them. I just know there's a big one in Scarborough which is worth a look around. I'll just go and make a video there next time I end up in Scarborough. So we're now ascending the steps and this is the area in front of Stirling Castle. So that's the car park and there's the castle just there in front of us. So you can see a lot of people here, don't you? Sounds like that. It's the gentleman who was playing the bagpipes. So that's the castle. It is closed now and we're going to go to this corner. That's not to disturb them and his talk and we'll look at the views and then we're going to go to another hill where we'll get even more views out this way. So as I come down here from the castle behind me, I'm going to head down this path down here. Already the views over that way as well as all this monument which is subject for another video opening out. You can just see the River Forth. Actually we know the Forth Bridge but here it is much further inland. So we're going to come down this path here. So we'll leave a couple of streets of the castle behind us. We'll go down this slight steps where we should find another cemetery but then from that cemetery, we should go onto a more rugged hill which is a bit more out the way. You know, it's not so urbanized and it's a bit strange. It's a bit sort of quiet. You see people sort of walking around up there but it's just nothing like what we've just been on. So as we come down to this road here as we're heading for just over there on the other side of the little valley. So that road there, so you're going down, we'll see it in a second. It has a really sharp hairpin bend. So it's quite a dramatic city sterling. It's got, you know, the sort of the flatter areas but the parts of the cities that are up on the hill that goes up to the castle. It's quite exciting to walk around. And we're going to go down here and it's coming. Now, we're heading, so we're basically directly below the castle although we're not down at ground level. That's that hairpin bend on that road I just said about. I went for a walk around here once and tells the boy racer and he came speeding along this road. He went down there and talked pretty much to the handbrake turn down around that hairpin bend and I didn't think he was going to make it but he just did. So, here is another cemetery. So what we'll do, we'll go into that cemetery and what we'll do actually, we'll go down this path here and then it says public path to Moat Hill. Moat Hill is also known as the hill with the headings there. So we'll follow this path passing another cemetery. We're going to get a really good view of that hairpin bend now because we are going to be, this bench literally looks down on it. The van coming up the hill. So we'll see how the van has to take that hairpin bend. Yeah, it's pretty steep. One more ride on my bike a bit. Over that, that way is more the industrial side sterling. You can see, I could see, well I can see now but the camera's not looking at how the curing tower's over at the Grangemush distilleries and you can also, on a very, very clear day, you can just see the tops of the towers at the Fourth Bridge as in the new Fourth Road Bridge but we'll see the River Fourth on this video, just not the, well, we technically look down and see bridges over the Fourth, but when I say the Fourth Bridge, you're thinking of the Railroad Bridge. We'll see other Fourth Bridges. There's the castle behind us. I'll go up these steps and this takes us into the bottom corner of the cemetery. Here we go. A lot quieter this one. A lot of tourists will look around the town or the city line. We'll go to the other one, not so many of them come down here. We're now following the Goan Hill Heritage Trail so we go out this corner here, down these little steps and follow this path. Now, this next bit isn't too exciting. I'm just gonna follow the path off down there through the gorse and I'm gonna make my way up to the Beheading Stone. So there's Stirling Castle over there. It's a little bit windy around here, but I don't think it's so windy you're not gonna be able to hear what I'm saying. We're heading for the Beheading Stone, which is just down there, pretty much directly below the wall this morning, but you might be able to see Eva at the moment, but we'll have a look when we get to the Beheading Stone. So you can see the rest of the Stirling spreading out. Over there is Bridge of Allen. If you ever go there, go to the Allen Water Brewhouse. It's a great little pub that brews its own beer. That's worth a visit. There's a railway line, the Highland Main Line up towards Perth and in Venice, stretches off into the distance. There's a train that's coming along. You potentially would see it. There also was a railway from Stirling that headed out to the west of Scotland, which must have run along the bottom, along there somewhere. And that way is looking out sort of, well, Edinburgh would be that way if you kept going, but we're a good few miles from Edinburgh. And also over there, you can see some fairly sort of 1960s and 70s buildings. That is Stirling University. So we're gonna make our way down there now to the Beheading Stone. It looks as though we have nearly reached the top of the hill where the Beheading Stone is. There's some camons, which are fire out across the city. You can just see the fourth down there. It's down there, the railway line. So that's a fourth bridge, fourth railway bridge, but not the fourth bridge. On here is the Beheading Stone. So it's in a cage now. So, and it's probably never gonna be a heads up again. I was thinking if it wasn't in a cage, it wouldn't be a heads up again, but just to make sure it's in that cage. Looking down there and just see the old bridge over the fourth. Then you've got the modern road bridge. Well, it's pretty good. 120, 200 years old, it's hidden by a tree. It's the railway bridge, railway station's over there. Just over there, again, is the camera freaking it out, is Canbus Kenneth Abbey, which will be subject to another video. We'll do a video on Canbus Kenneth Abbey and the Wallace Monument. And if you look out that way, see to the north, let's finish with a view. The castle's kind of disappeared from view, but let's finish with the view that the cannons have fired out on. So that's that way. Castle is just over there. So from up by the Beheading Stone, hope you enjoyed this little walk around sterling. Thanks very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Goodbye.