These photo's are taken in the garden of Dunrobbin Castle. The outer shell of this building dates from the 19th century and could have come straight out of a fairytale. It reminded me a little of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria (from about the same period).
I pretended to be a greek statue from the so called "wet drapery style" period :P, luckily I managed to stay dry.
The gardens looked very fairytailish too but in a different way. They may be used as a background for strange surrealistic paintings. In the next picture the garden strongly resembles playmobil.
The inside of the castle was very interesting, but photographing was not allowed. Though the outside of the castle is 19th century the inside has extensions from all kinds of periods. The picture shows the library.
The next day we visited Balmoral and were a little dissapointed. Nothing much to see. The gardens weren't great and the exhibition featured some royal gowns I did not think very spectacular either.
We went on to Crathes Castle. This was more to my taste. A very pretty garden with all kinds of different elements.
In the evening we had fish and chips, the fish was huge.
A duck was walking around at the fish and chip shop hoping to get some food and ofcourse I had to feed it.
After dinner we went for a drive to the Linn of Dee. Here the river Dee is very narrow and has made a deep gorge in the rocks. Amazing to see and also a bit scary to sit beside.
One of the Forth bridges near Edinburgh.
The next pictures were taken at Melrose Abbey, the ruin of the richest abbey of the Scottish Borders. I saw three more ruins like that that day. The border region was very dangerous, that is why there are so many ruins in that particular area.
And with the Borders my stay in Scotland ended and I went down to England again.
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