A beautiful family walk!

Yesterday, it was a lovely day, so we decided to blow away the cobwebs with a long family walk at Dunnottar Castle. It's a beautiful ruined castle just 10 minutes' drive from us, and we love it there. It's so full of fascintaing history - William Wallace, Mary - Queen of Scots, the Marquis of Montrose and the future King Charles II have all had links with the castle, and there are plaques all over, telling the rich history. One of the first things we saw was this face-like shape on a wall, isn't it cool? The kids thought it looked angry, I think it looks quite happy... Shortly after we arrived, it started raining, but the sun came out almost immediately, and made a beautiful rainbow which looked like it was coming right out from the sea...

There are tons of little rooms, with various hidey holes. This was once a bread oven!

The castle is built on top of a cliff, so that the inhabitants could have easily seen enemies approaching from the sea.

It's a truly beautiful setting, absolutely breathtaking. It's not the most easily accessible, you have to walk right down to the bottom of the cliff, and then up a fairly steep staircase cut into the rock, but it's well worth the walk!