And on we go to the next castle, Huntly Castle in Aberdeenshire, the former seat of one of medieval and Renaissance Scotland’s most powerful families, Clan Gordon, Earl of Huntly. Today Huntly Castle is a stunning ruin near Huntly, a pretty market town. This place is actually the location of four different castles over the […]
A wide ditch encircles this striking, curtain-walled castle. Built in the 1200s as the seat of the powerful earls of Buchan, the heavily fortified stronghold became an elegant lodging in the 1500s. (Historic Enviroment of Scotland) Moray and Aberdeenshire are known for lots and lots of Whisky distilleries and also lots of castles all around. […]
I said Good Bye to Aberdeen and boarded the bus and train to Inverness, where I picked up my rental car for the next ten days. My home for the next week was “The Classroom” in Hopeman. A lovely seaside village along the coast of the Moray Firth, founded in 1805 to house people displaced […]