Fanny brought me to the Writer's Museum, featuring the famous Scot literary figures - Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. I was nice building donated by a 'LADY'. Anyway, we walked between the rooms which exhibited some of the manuscripts, books and poetry by these great writers. Yet the gift shop was quite disappointing with nothing much but several postcards on the rack and few copies of the writers' works. Well, the good thing about it was that I could save the money for 'souvenirs'!Then, we rushed to the train station, aiming to catch the train to Stirling. I really wanted to thank Fanny of checking train schedule, helping me with the ticket machine and seeing me to the platform - what a considerate friend! She didn't join me as she's been to Stirling for two times. Certainly would bore her to death if she joined. What she would do in the afternoon I guess would be taking a nice nap (HAHA!) and preparing for dinner! (She said she would make a Chinese soup! :))
The train to Stirling was a bit delayed but it managed to arrive at 1pm. I straightly grabbed two postcards and sent them back to HK on the platform (there was a mini WH Smith shop). While I was wondering how to get to Stirling Castle (coz it's heard that it would probably take 30 mins to walk up the hill), I bumped into a train assistant to enquire the way to my destination. It turned out to be just a 10-min walk from the city centre! That's why I decided to take my time and have lunch at O'Brien's (hand-cut sandwiches). Let me say, that's the best sandwich I had ever had in this trip! It's YUMMY! It's the special of the day, tootsies with bacon, sausage, tomatoes and radish. Most of all, it's HOT!
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Hahha! You shouldn't have praised me because of my laziness. In fact, I should have accompanied you to there no matter how many times I've visited the place if I was truely considerate. What I didn't tell you about the major reason for not going was that a trip to Stirling would remind me of some miserable past -- "the guy" who spent a day with me at Stiring!
One more thing! You should frankly tell people that what stopped you from buying souvenires from the museum was your bulgy rucksack! XD
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