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  • Doune Castle: seat of power

    July 30, 2014 /

    Is this my favourite castle yet? (It might just take the medieval biscuit!) The setting for 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and now the new 'Outlander' series, Doune Castle is a delight to explore!

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    Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 2014

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016
  • A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014 /

    What was the exciting sport enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots? And just how did I end up playing it myself?

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    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull – a mystery re-exhumed

    August 21, 2022

    Deer carvings at Dunchraigaig

    September 13, 2023

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014
  • Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014 /

    Sitting on the quiet main street of Falkland in Fife is one of the most remarkable Scottish castles, brainchild of the brilliant but ill-fated Stewart kings

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    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016

    Aberlemno: riddles in stone

    October 10, 2012

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