12:16 pm<\/p>\n
Majestic Scone… (\u2018Scoon\u2019) Proud and dignified, more a home than a museum. I have stood where Macbeth, where Charles II, where Robert the Bruce<\/em> (etc) were crowned!<\/p>\n The only part of my visit that\u00a0I\u2019ve disliked are the dozens of peacocks running around loose. They are the butt ugliest<\/em> birds on Earth besides turkeys and vultures and their cry is like a cross between a lament and a kitten mewling. Someone put them out of their misery, please<\/em>! One is \u2018posing\u2019 (quite literally, in fact! I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes.) for a photograph. It was this<\/em> close to me a moment ago and raised up its hideous \u2018eyed\u2019 tail. Sign of warning or friendship? \u00a0Blech, I can\u2019t stand those birds!<\/p>\n Scone is a quiet place far from the hubbub of \u2018real\u2019 life. A white<\/u><\/em> peacock has just approached. It\u2019s lovely<\/em>!!! I wonder if they are rare or perhaps just females. I\u2019ll try to find someone to ask. (note: special purebreds hatched right on the estate, not too<\/em> rare, others have them. They are not<\/em> albinos.) Sorry for the digression\u2014hey there\u2019s another one! Sorry again!<\/p>\n So, as I was saying, Scone is a peaceful place and gives off wonderful vibes despite its tumultuous history. The Mansfields still live here full time; can you imagine the lifestyle?! I\u2019m happy being a pauper, thank you very much! At least I have my freedom. Besides, I was given a glimpse as to the running of this estate. I couldn\u2019t be bothered!<\/p>\n 8:25 pm<\/p>\n I got a tip on a place to stay in Stirling (a new International Youth Hostel, \u00a311.50\/night, breakfast included. Supposedly, the rooms are singles.), so I\u2019ll follow through on that before deciding on going north or south. I realise that it would be silly and time consuming to go to Aberdeen for just a statue and a ruin (and I don\u2019t even know how easy or hard it would be to get to Kildrummy from Aberdeen, I\u2019ll try to find out tomorrow). I\u2019d like to come back to Scotland with a car. Hmm… maybe I could do Stirling, Bannockburn, and<\/em> Falkirk (whew\u00a0!) tomorrow and go on a day trip to Dundee and Glamis on Tuesday. The thing is, there\u2019s not cheap (ie. in my price range) accommodation in Dundee. I dinna ken so I\u2019ll see tomorrow. If there\u2019s nothing (for sleeping, that is\u00a0!) in Stirling and it\u2019s not worth going to Aberdeen, then I\u2019ll go wherever a bus goes and hope there\u2019s a bed at the other end!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 12:16 pm Majestic Scone… (\u2018Scoon\u2019) Proud and dignified, more a home than a museum. I have stood where Macbeth, where Charles II, where Robert the Bruce (etc) were crowned! The only part of my visit that\u00a0I\u2019ve disliked are the dozens of peacocks running around loose. They are the butt ugliest birds on Earth besides turkeys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,688,18,3,56],"tags":[798],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-perth","category-scotland","category-travel","category-uk","tag-housepalace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}