16 March 2012

"...the gothic greatness of its features, and its mouldering walls of dark grey stone, rendered it a gloomy and sublime object." - Ann Radcliffe

Two weekends ago we went to see the castle here in St Andrews.  Apparently you can get in free if you're wearing your academic gown...



but of course we don't have those. (I guess we could have rented them for £10... but admission was only five fifty...)

Anyway...

It was a beautiful day:







and it was a rainy day...



Sun + rain =


can you see it? :)

We also saw some cool underground things.

Like a bottle dungeon:


They had to lower prisoners in with a rope.  Part of me wants to live in there for a week just for the experience...

Anyway.

We also saw the mines and counter-mines that were dug during a siege on the castle.  Enter at your own risk....




"... as she surveyed through the twilight its desolation—its lofty walls, overtopt with briony, moss and nightshade, and the embattled towers that rose above,—long-suffering and murder came to her thoughts." - Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho)