Castles and picnics - Glamis castle

On sunday we went over to Glamis Castle in Angus. It really is a picture perfect castle, and almost looks like what Disney must have styled their castle on, but for real. Home to the Earls of Strathmore for years and years, the castle has plenty horrible history to it, including more ghosts than you could shake a TV documentary crew at. There are plenty royal family links too. The Queen mother was born there, and Victoria (The Queen, not Beckham) never said no to the odd bank holiday weekend up in Angus. Local rumour suggests that even the English Bard, Shakespeare visited Glamis, from where he drew his inspiration for Macbeth.

Our group grew to 10 people for a picnic - it was P's birthday. We had a lovely leisurely afternoon in the grounds, some of us took the castle tour, others lay on the grass and caught some sun. It is nice to be able to come to a place like this and just enjoy a day there, rather than running round the tour and heading off to the next spot in your Rough Guide to Scotland before tea.

Glamis Castle website

Posted by bigcrags @ 11:58 AM

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