This castle is Aberdeenshire. It is a “fairy-tale” castle and should be seen on any tours of Scotland. It is a simple L-plan tower-house, rising straight out of the ground, and seven stories high. There are delicately corbelled turrets crowned with simple conical roofs. The castle was built in...
The coast road north from Edinburgh to Saint Andrews and Tayside is for part of its route a series of links between small medieval fishing villages of similar appearance: St Monance, Pittenweem, Anstruther and, the most north-easterly, Crail. James VI called these royal burghs the...
The roadless island of Canna is a moorland plateau of black basalt rock, just 5 miles long and 1.25 miles wide. Compass Hill (143m), at the north-eastern corner, contains enough magnetite (an iron oxide material) to deflect the navigation compasses in passing yachts. The ferry arrives...