I’ll post one soon about a similar (but not pink!) one called Crathes Castle, where I was allowed to take pictures. It’ll give you an idea of it, in any case.

Really? Oh, there are so many places I could recommend for castles! The Loire Valley in France is amazing for castle-viewing. And so is Wales, especially if you like medieval castles.

I agree! It must have been gut-wrenching for that last generation to hand over not only the building, but also its contents!

Haha! I never did that many missions! I still have several more to write about, and I’ll certainly visit more of the Aberdeenshire ones when I next visit my son!

I don’t think so. It’s something called “harling” which seems to work like a sort of stony plaster that’s applied to the outside and lasts a long time to protect the stonework and avoid the need to paint. The pigment is added to it, but why it’s pink? I don’t know.

Like I wrote in the post about castles in Aberdeenshire, there are about 65 castles or castle ruins just in that one county, with 14 of them that really seem worth seeing.

That’s true: I’ve seen more “traditional” castles that have that boiling oil feature and arrow slots, etc. for defense. But I think this was more about passive defense; they didn’t house an army there.