Five Photos, Five Stories: Day 1
Five Lake District houses. Who lived there? Sizergh.
Dirleton Castle
The ruins of a 13th century castle.
Sunny Dunny: Dunbar
Dunbar is the birthplace of John Muir.
East Linton to Hailes Castle
Mary Queen of Scots stayed here – one of many places with that claim to fame!
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 