Day 5: The day we collected our hire car. I had pre-ordered it on the internet from Enterprise as they offer a 'pick-up service'. We were staying approximately 7/8 miles outside of Stirling so this was great for us. We were collected and taken to their offices (Paddy was welcomed too!) only to find that the car we had ordered (Ford Ka) wasn't available! Anyway, to cut a long story short, we ended up with a free upgrade to a Vauxhall Vectra! After leaving the offices we drove through Stirling, saw the castle (which we tried to visit later but discovered a no dogs rule again!) and the Wallace Monument. We drove through the pretty villages of Doune (where we visited later that week) and Callendar to our first loch - Loch Lubnaig. It was raining but it didn't seem to take any beauty away from the place. We then drove onto Loch Earn where we found a nice warm hotel (it was only 9 degrees according to the temperature read-out in the car!!!!!) overlooking the loch, where we had our lunch. We drove back to Blair Drummond via Turret Falls on Loch Turret.