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This is perhaps scotlands most interesting museum with something to delight each member of the family. It holds the most amazing things. If you like football what could be better than viewing the oldest football in the world? Here it is at Stirling Art Gallery and museum along with the world’s oldest curling stone. Rather special too, is the earliest known Christian gravestone in Scotland. You can learn a great deal about Stirling during your visit. You will find artwork, marble busts of local people and collections and displays from earliest times to present day. The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum was established in 1874 and is visited each year by people from all over the world. The collections they have are also quite amazing and vary from collections of spectacles and reading glasses, to a collection of seaweeds made by Alexander Croall (1808-1885), who wrote author of the definitive work, British Seaweeds (1860). There are also hundreds of artworks from sketches, water colours to oils. If you are interested in pewter, both church and domestic, this is also the place to find one of Scotland’s significant collections. The gallery and museum also has a café and a gift shop on site. The café serves Italian coffee, light lunches and home baking. This is a place well worth a visit if you are planning to be in the area with your Scottish Motorhome hire. For more information and opening times click the blue text on the link below.

The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
Dumbarton Road
Stirling FK8 2RQ
Scotland

Tel: 01786 471917

While travelling in Scotland in a motorhome why not visit the Bannockburn Heritage Centre, the famous battlefield site where Robert the Bruce defeated the army of Edward II in 1314.

Enjoy a scenic walk and see Pilkington Jackson’s famous Equestrian Statue. Relive the battle experience by trying out chainmail for yourself and take home a unique memento from the gift shop during your visit.

Bannockburn
Glasgow Road
Stirling
Central
FK7 0LJ

Telephone : 0844 4932139
Fax : 0844 4932138

The whole family will love the safari and adventure park at Blair Drummond. It is closed during winter and opens again on March 24th 2012 till October. This is an experience that is a complete days outing so allow plenty of time to view and participate in everything that Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park has to offer. Here in Scotland you can feel transported to Africa and  the jungle homes of the animals! Wild animals abound here and you can see elephants, bison , bears, lions, camels, rhinos and many more. Expect to see the wild Animal reserves and view the sea Lions Shows. Take a boat trip around Chimp Island and spot chimps living as they would in the wild. There is also a Pets Farm, Lenmur Land and Birds of Prey Displays. If all the walking around the attractions isn’t enough for the more active members of the family, get them pedaling the five seater Pedal Boats on the lake. Everyone is sure to sleep well tonight! There is the adventure playground and the giant Astraglide to enjoy as well as a pirate ship play area. For lunch there are picnic areas and Barbeque areas too. There is also a giant fort or castle for the children to climb. Once they have reached the top they get a stunning view of the park before using the slides to get back to the bottom. There is a maze at the bottom of the castle so try not to get lost! This place is certainly a paradise for children and a great day out for all the family. Take plenty of photographs as it’s a memorable experience and likely to be the highlight of the children’s holiday in Scotland. Include Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park in your Scottish Campervan Hire holiday itinerant and you are likely to surprise your children with a unique For more information and admission prices click the blue text below.

Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park
By Stirling
Scotland
FK9 4UR

Telephone: +44 1786 841456

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Visit the remains of Cambuskenneth Abbey in your motorhome hire vehicle and view the fine display of medieval gravestones and architectural fragments. Here lies buried, James 111 and Margaret Queen of Denmark. The abbey is surrounded on three sides by the meandering river Forth. The free standing bell tower remains a landmark, rising 20metres high and is an excellent example of 13th century architecture. The Abbey is only open in the summer between 1st April and 30th September. For a map of how to get there and more information visit ‘Historic Scotland’.

Cambuskenneth Abbey
Cambuskkenneth
Stirlingshire
Scotland

This is a forest site on the banks of the River Forth surrounded by mature majestic oak trees. You may be lucky enough to see red squirrels here along with plenty of other interesting wildlife. This is ideal walking country and there is plenty of opportunity for orienteering and cycling close by. On nearby Loch Achray, Loch Drunkie and Loch Venacher you can go boating, canoeing and fishing. Perhaps the most thrilling thing to see around here for wildlife enthusiasts is the local Ospreys. Just a short drive away, at David Marshall Lodge, you can watch live and recorded footage of the local ospreys. On the site are plenty of facilities. At Gatmore, within walking distance, the village shop carries essentials and the local pub serves food. Drive to the village of Aberfoyle for a wider variety of shops and places to eat. If you are in Stirlingshire the Copleland Camping and Caravan Club Site is a good place to overnight in your Scottish Campervan hire.  For more details of the site and how to book click on the blue text below.

Cobleland Camping and Caravanning Club Site
Station Road
Gartmore
Stirlingshire
FK8 3RR
Scotland

Telephone: 01877 382392

Maragowan Caravan Club Site
Main Road
Killin
Stirlingshire
FK21 8TN

5 star campsite with 100 pitches, accepts motorhomes. Ideal family holiday base.

Stirling Old Town Jail is closed during winter but open around the end of April till October from 10am till 5pm. This is a memorable experience for the whole family and certainly gives good insight into what happened to convicted criminals in Victorian times. Stirling had a notorious hangman who worked from the prison, so many of the prison inmates saw their last days here before their meeting with the hangman and his noose! It’s a very sobering thought.  To help set the scene and make the experience all the more real, you also get the chance to meet the prison warden, a Victorian reformer and a prisoner who is trying to escape. During the summer there are prison tours every 20 minutes. Stirling Old Town Jail, is the responsibility of Stirling District Tourism who run and manage it. The Jail is positioned on St. John Street, which is on the way to Stirling Castle.  Drive to Stirling early in your Scottish Campervan Hire, as the best time to visit is early morning when visibility from the Rooftop Viewpoint can be at its best. There are admission prices for entry to this attraction, check the website below by clicking the blue text for further information.

Stirling Old Town Jail
St. John Street
Stirling
FK8 1EA
Scotland

Tel: 01786 450050

The Falkirk Wheel is an amazing and Iconic piece of modern engineering that links the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. Her Majesty the Queen came to the site and officially declared The Falkirk Wheel opened on 24 May 2002. The Union Canal lies high above the Forth and Clyde canal and originally there would have been eleven locks to navigate to join the two. Those locks had been broken long ago and the concept of a spectacular Falkirk Wheel, a giant boat lift, became an £84.5 million project designed to also celebrate the millennium. It is a stunning and monumental structure and the world’s first rotating boat lift. The best way to enjoy this historic invention is to travel by boat and experience the whole process. You can take a boat trip that takes you though the wheel. The trip on a boat takes 50 minutes.  Your boat will enter the Wheel’s upper gondola which is then lowered with is surrounding water. The wheel is located approximately 23 miles from both Glasgow and Edinburgh. To drive to the Falkirk Wheel, from Edinburgh, travel west on the M9, and then exit at Junction 8. The Falkirk wheel is well signposted with brown and white tourist signs. If you are traveling from Glasgow in your Glasgow Motorhome Rental take the M80/A80 follow signs for Falkirk.  For photographs, details and cost of boat trips etc click the blue link below.

The Falkirk Wheel
Lime Road
Tamfourhill
Falkirk
FK1 4RS

Telephone: 08700 500 208

In the ‘granite city’ or the ‘grey city’ of Aberdeen many of the buildings are constructed with local grey granite. The mica deposits can sparkle and so some even call it the ‘silver city’. It’s a large industrial city, the third largest in Scotland, and not always considered a city to visit on a tourist trail. However, in the city centre is an interesting museum worthy of a viewing and on a rainy day it may well be of interest to the children as well. This museum once was a 17th Century prison and was housing fifty prisoners but its greatest fascination is its ghosts! Claiming to be the most haunted building in Aberdeen it featured in a TV programme called ’Most Haunted’ in 2009. Currently you can visit the prison cells and look at the collection of related objects that describe crime and punishment in Aberdeen. It is Aberdeen’s oldest preserved building and clearly what has gone on here has led to many unearthly spirits still unable to rest in peace! Watch out for ghosts or that chill in the air that indicates a spirit is passing close by! Ghost sightings are not guaranteed, but you may become one of the lucky few. This is a place you may want to visit with children and later that evening to read ghost stories in the comfort of your Scottish Motorhome Hire. The Tolbooth is only open during the summer season and there is an admission charge. If you are not terribly mobility access is difficult. For more information click the website link below.

The Tolbooth
Castle Street
Aberdeen
Stirlingshire
AB10 1EL
Scotland

Telephone: 01224 621167 (when the Tolbooth is open)