Stirling's Sleepy Dragon

Please allow me to introduce you to some fairies you might meet on your tour round the North Sea. For example this dear sleeping dragon. He is guarding the bridge of Bruce in Stirling.

Study your map and u will learn, Stirling is not exactly located alongsite the North Sea Cycle Route. It may be about a good day's travel from Edinburgh or Dundee. And it is worth the way to check old Scotland's center. Stirling is a place of glourious victories, badly defeats, sleepy dragons, proud Scots.

Accomodation: Aberdeen

Oilprices are somewhere up in the clouds this days. For Aberdeen, center of british oil industry this means business and wealth. Any empty room is rented as B&B to business people working for American, British or Saudi Companies with well known names.
I cruised town for several hours without any result. Hm, bad is not to know where to sleep the fastcoming night. A lovely elderly couple finally offered their sofa. Uh, I cannot accept this! So Mrs A. phonesearched for a room and managed to book me into crowded Aberdeen Youthhostel. Wonderful old lady! I stayed in Youthhostel's posh room for one night, and in a three bed room on night number 2.
At breakfast I learnd that Aberdeen is overrun by oil industrie for real. In the morning at 7.00 were four or five oil manager having their morning tea at the Youthhostel, while I started my tour south.