Five Photos, Five Stories: Day 1
Five Lake District houses. Who lived there? Sizergh.
Dirleton Castle
Dirleton Castle in East Lothian has existed since the 13th century. Built by the de Vauxes, it changed hands twice over the next 400 years – first to the Haliburtons, then to the… Read more Dirleton Castle →
Sunny Dunny: Dunbar
For Jo’s Monday Walk this week, I’m going to take you round Dunbar in East Lothian, affectionately known as Sunny Dunny (which it was). And look! Just below the Leisure… Read more Sunny Dunny: Dunbar →
East Linton to Hailes Castle
This is a gorgeous little walk of just under two miles each way from the beautiful East Lothian village of East Linton to the riverside ruins of Hailes Castle. We… Read more East Linton to Hailes Castle →
Blackness Castle
Yesterday we went east to Blackness Castle on the Firth of Forth, one of Historic Scotland’s sites. We dodged the rain with a well-timed lunch, then spent a dry, if cold… Read more Blackness Castle →
Scottish Snapshots: A quartet of castles
Scottish Snapshots is a series of short posts about places I visited in 2013 but didn’t write about at the time Scotland is not short of an iconic ruined castle… Read more Scottish Snapshots: A quartet of castles →
Dublin Diary: Day 2
For the next three days, we wandered round Dublin using the walking tours in our Lonely Planet guidebook as a basis. Day two was “Viking and Medieval Dublin”, though I… Read more Dublin Diary: Day 2 →
Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle, which has a beautiful cliff-top setting on the Ayrshire coast, was the home of the Chief of Clan Kennedy until the family donated it to the National Trust for Scotland… Read more Culzean Castle →
Stirling Castle at dusk
The last time we visited Stirling Castle (Historic Scotland) was a sunny, autumn day in 2011 and the pictures in the blogpost I wrote then reflected that. After arriving in… Read more Stirling Castle at dusk →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 