No I’m sorry but I can’t be expected to cater for you all the time, you’ll just have to cope by yourselves for once. Normal service will be resumed next week hopefully.

This is near enough the view from the place I’m staying at:

Good innit? 🙂

Shall we have castles and fortresses and stuff then?

OK.

This is a big mo-fo.

Awe go on then, Seville….

Colditz.

Cadiz Castle..

My weekly Rivington photo 🙂

Was riding here at the weekend:

Woodbury Castle hillfort (slightly reclaimed by nature)

The Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

San Miguel de Lillo, Oviedo

And Dracula’s castle in Romania

Vlad the impaler used to accessorise it with thousands of his enemies hoisted up on big pointy stakes outside. Not in the remotest bit imposing really

So he’s in Conway to hammer the Welsh a la Edward 1st.

And one one the coast near Florence..
Looks great from a scooter..

😀

Here’s my local one

Now isn’t that so much nicer than what you normally post on these threads, elf?

Schloss Neuschwanstein.

Ludwig was pushed!

My weekly Rivington photo

Pah – the folly of it.

Raby Castle.

Ok, so one modern (FOB Inkerman):

And one ancient (Gibaltar, Rock of):

One for the brooom broom racers amongst you..
Castle Combe Race Curcuit, phah.

Enola Gay B-29 Super Fortress

I was going to start singing, but thought better of it.
Lindisfarne Castle for ya’s.

B17 Flying Fortresses

An old sailing haunt of mine, Pendennis castle, Falmouth.

The inspiration for the Walt Disney castle.

Alnwick Caslte Winter 2010 by Lee Collis, on Flickr

Menstrie Castle

And a bit of history:

“Menstrie Castle, a three-storey castellated house, was home to a branch of the Clan MacAllister who anglicised their name to Alexander.

Sir William Alexander (1557 – 1644) was to become 1st Earl of Stirling in 1633. In 1626, he had been appointed as Principal Secretary of State for Scotland and entrusted with the establishment of a Scottish colony in Nova Scotia in Canada.

He advised King James VI to found the Order of Baronets of Nova Scotia as a money making scheme. For the payment of 1,000 merks, new baronets were granted a 16,000 acre estate in the developing colony. The scheme failed and in 1631, Charles I ceded the lands to Louis XIII of France, and ordered the 4 settlers to burn their buildings. After the failure of the scheme, William died bankrupt in London in 1644. His embalmed body was brought North and interred in the family vault in the High Kirk of Stirling.

There are still about 100 Baronets of Nova Scotia in existence. Many of them are descended from ancestors who once nominally owned territory which they would never see.”

The library also used to be there when I were a lad.

That Gibraltar pic is ace, and it’s been an age since I read Magician.

Is there any reason why I’m thinking about The Blackadder now, Drac?

I can see this one out of my office window,

Lincoln Castle

Wooohooo, boing!!

That’s not the Lincoln Castle… this is (its sister ship the Tattershall Castle is on the Thames as a bar now):

Secondly, Vianden castle, cycling distance from my new gaff (assuming I want to cycle for a few hours)

Castle Campbell

now singing in my head the ditty:

“The Campbells are coming you ken by the smell;
the dirty wee [sweary ‘B’ word] are running like hell”

LOL @ bikebouy