Posted on 03/27/2014 4:45:12 PM PDT by Renfield
Thanks, just saw them. Saved me a groping by TSA, rip offs by the locals, saved lots of bucks and I am current on FR.
I just got a book of castles in England, Scotland,Ireland and Wales. I’ll bet these are in it, I’ll have to check.
I visited Blarney Castle in Ireland about 50 years ago and I just found an old picture of me kissing the Blarney Stone. I was skinny in those days.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.
http://www.royal-oak.org/index.php
Oddly, none of the ten above were on the The Royal Oak Foundation.
Thanks for the thread...#10 Carew Castle is my new background on my monitor.
Why do people park their boats on the beach in the first photo? What’s with the giant golden mushrooms in the second one?
Er was the last castle owned by Mr. T?
Pretty amazing really when you consider that Houston has already torn down the Astrodome.
Conwy Castle is my favorite, not just the castle, but the town of Conwy still has it’s medieval walls all intact that connect to the castle.
IIRC the only other similar one is in old Yugoslavia and was damaged in the civil war.
PS before the welsh names took over in the 70’s it was called Conway.
No mention of Harlech castle?
Thanks.
I made number 9, Pembroke. It was my first ship masters job and I made a point to go ashore and explore each port as if I may never go there again. We only went to Pembroke once.
Coincidently I had trained on a simulator for the port of Pembroke.
Tell the government you’re going to build solar panels in the castle.
On another note I will be there in July for a couple months.
One of the early quests was sending a party to defeat the "Chepstow worme", a dragon that was pillaging the countryside around Chepstow.
When my wife and I went to England to visit her relatives two years ago, we took a side-trip to Wales so that I could visit Chepstow Castle (simply as a fond memory of my wargaming days).
We visited several other castles in Wales and Scotland, as well as some Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall. But I was particularly pleased to have visited Chepstow.
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and where the heck is Harlech on this list. Should have been eleven.
These are amazing photos. I love stonework; amazed at how well these have held up. The area I live in now was settled by Welsh. I’ve learned to correctly pronounce those names ;-). Even our little town was named after a small town in Wales. I’d love to visit there someday and see the original.
Thanks for the post, a pleasant way to start the day.
Tintern Abbey is not to be missed either!!
Always wanted to live in one of those,guess it’s my love of history,and treasure hunting
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Also, Lighthouses....always been fascinated with them and figured would be a great place to reside...
Hmmm... Me thinks that unemployment was not much of a problem in Wales in the 1200’s. :)
Henry the 13th?....lol, (I know who you meant) :)
Sounds like an interesting read. :-)
I’d love to know which book you chose.
Of the one’s in Wales I visited I liked Conway the most.
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