While Day 2 was All About Abbeys, on Wednesday I decided to check out three different types of castle. And in my case, interest in castles and such is limited to those foreboding, ruined hulk battlement types, not fancy Victorian and Edwardian Fat Cat summer houses gone off the berserk end of ostentatiousness.
Again, look for the pictures, but read up as you want on the castles I visited:
- Hermitage Castle (during Opening Hours this time) -- a purely defensive and strategic martial property on the border with England
- Castle Caerlaverock, a defensive stronghold that was repurposed as luxurious living accomodations
- Threave Castle, a river island stronghold controlling part of the southern coast
The day finished with a scenic drive back up through southern Scotland to the town of Kilmarnock about 30km southwest of Glasgow. The countryside represented what I had always pictured when reading the James Herriot. Wikipedia tells me Wight is Scottish (though the setting for Herriot is English) so I'm sure the local countryside reflected in his writings.
The stay itself was at the corporate mediocrity that is the the Travelodge chain of motels. Cheap, but... ugh.
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