castle – Page 6 – Meditations

January 17, 2018

Bowes Castle

Bowes… another one of the landmark castles one can see from the A66, Bowes is less imposing than the others (Brough and Brougham Castles)….

January 13, 2018

Leiden is a small city which is situated between the Old and New Rhines. The same applies to the castle there, which as the…

January 9, 2018

Don’t visit this place. It’s not worth it. I mean, it could be… but it isn’t. I tried to go and take a look…

January 6, 2018

Raveningham’s an interesting one: other than the moat, nothing remains insofar as I could see. Indeed, a modern complex is situated in the middle…

January 3, 2018

I am not sure I understand Mettingham. Or, at least, I wasn’t in the position to get up close and personal with all the…

January 1, 2018

Baconsthorpe is the gem of Norfolk, the one place I would say that everyone should (could) visit if they have the opportunity to do…

December 23, 2017

I think Bigod Castle could be wonderful. Regrettably, I could not explore the inner courtyards as, predictably, when I visited, it was closed. Don’t…

December 16, 2017

When one goes to investigate a place which no longer exists, the sense of self must be strong and rooted in the present. It…

December 5, 2017

Bodiam. The name had been in my mind for a long while by the time I got around to visiting this place. I think…

December 2, 2017

The Norman keep, located within a larger Roman-era settlement, is another one of the places which I managed to visit at a very poor…