Scotland - Castles

When in Scotland, one of the must visit places are castles. We visited a grand total of:

3.


(Yala yala, I know its not much! We only had 4 days there!)



1) Urquhart Castle
Which is in my humble opinion........... ok I'm being too modest. You MUST FUCKIN VISIT THIS PLACE IN SCOTLAND!!!


It is daaaaaaaaaaamnn beautiful! Its a castle ruin located right near to the Lochness and it is amazingly beautiful + you get one of the best views of the famous Lochness from here.

Urquhart castle has been around for 1400 years so it is rich in history. It came to be in ruins from the numerous amount of wars & bombings (the English put barrels of gun powder to detonate the castle when they managed to conquer it).

Urquhart from afar

The Trebuchet- in other words, a giant catapult.

Self-timer group shot

A robin!

Salutation of the wrong kind *ahem*

This place used to be the royal kitchen:

Sam: "Wait! Wait!! I will taste better with chives and parsley"

Sigh. Short people.

View of Urquhart again

2) Stirling Castle

This one was so-so. Its worth the trip but we were pretty unfortunate coz it was raining & windy & cold throughout our whole time spent there. A bit of a mood dampener.

Its worth a visit though as it is really beautiful all the same :)

Stirling Castle is one of Scotland's strongest stronghold. You know what? I forgot the rest of its history. Read this instead.

At the entrance to Stirling

The 2nd entrance to Stirling Castle...which apparently is the main entrance as it used to have the thickest wooden barriers

Fire!!

View from Stirling Castle. They have their very own cemetry grounds.

This was Stirling Castle's Great Hall (which actually wasn't that big) where celebrations, ballroom dances & christening.

Another self-timer group photo!

By 4pm when night fell, the caslte grounds were bloody freezing.

The part of the caslte ground where someone was murdered after a squabble

View from Stirling at night! Gorgeous

Pictures here are taken from Stirling's royal kitchens:

Sam is pretty straightforward when stealing

Tracy... erm... likes chicken eggs very much?

Menu for "Dressed Peacock"

Take a pecok, breke his necke, and kutte his throte, and fle him, the skyn and the feethurs togidre, and the hede still to the skyn of the nekke, And kepe the skyn and ffethurs hole togiders; draw him as an hen, and kepe the bone to the necke hole, and roste him. And set the bone of the necke above the broche, as he was wonte to sitte a lyve, and abowe the legges to the body, as he was wonte to sitte a lyve; and whan he is roasted ynowe, take him of, and lete him kele; And then wynde the skyn with the fethurs and the taile abouht the body, And serue him for the as he were a-live; or elles pull him dry, and rost him, and serue him as thou doest a henne

Thate concludes Stirling Castle,witche is a mest vysit
Nexe upe is:

3) Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh (Edin-bra) Castle is one of the largest castles in all of Scotland. Its grounds are massively huge, and a lot of restoration work has been done to this castle, so it is one of the better-conditioned ones.

View of Edinburgh Castle from below











View from the top









Entrance of Edinburgh Castle











Some of the buildings on the inside of the castle




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All the dogs who died for the Queen. Got a special place for them on castle grounds. How spoilt!









The armoury room




Old English style armour

To be honest, I disliked Edinburgh Caslte the most. It was over-touristy so it made it difficult to sight see in peace at a leisurely pace. Annoying shitz coz that means there were loads of glucose-overdose children too. =_=


Ah! I have been spending too much time on this post. This Scotland trip seems like it took a month!