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Sunday 7 August 2016

Castle

The weather has been relentlessly cloudy in this little part of the universe thus far this summer. In years past, I have proven myself capable of navigating with map and compass across cloud-topped mountain peaks for hours on end. At present, though, the delight of such a pursuit eludes me. We did manage to get to Dunottar Castle, on the coast south of Aberdeen, however. I am not normally a castles-person, but this is something different. The ruins are perched precariously on the edge of a cliff-rimmed promontory, and the atmosphere is striking. Even the normally-prosaic French Michelin guide to Ecosse manages to break out into 'On pense aux pirates, Vikings, fantomes' before reverting to the safer territory of dates of kings, queens and miscellaneous other statistics. Come to think of it, I don't know why we might think of Vikings: they'd been and gone centuries before the castle was built.