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
A castle on the Forth.
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 →
