[Renfield]

Ping

[bigheadfred]

I was at the bar the other night with my buddy having some beers. We had been there a while when two large girls came up to the bar and ordered some drinks. I noticed when they ordered they both had strong accents so I said ‘Hi, are you two girls from Scotland?’ One of them spoke up, with an attitude and said ‘it’s WALES you idiot!!!’

So I immediately said ‘Sorry, are you two Whales from Scotland?’

It’s the last thing I remember.

[fedupjohn]

BTTT

[Joe 6-pack]

Fantastic post. Thanks!

[centurion316]

Looking at these pictures, one can hear the lyrics of Men of Harlech wafting through the air. Songs and castles, what could be more Welsh? or is it Welch? Jones, most probably.

[PA Engineer]

I am surprised Pencoed did not make the list. It is the only Tudor castle and built by the Morgans who translated the Bible into Welsh. This saved the Welsh language. Daniel Boon was a descendent of the Morgans.

[Cicero]

We visited Wales many years ago, in the 1970s, and saw most of those castles. Also the countryside, which is absolutely beautiful—mountains, forests, lakes, meadows, beaches.

Back then, they had no guardrails or anything, and tourists were free to wander around the tops of the castles. We took our kids up with us, and everyone had a fine time. No one fell over the edges.

The way things are going, I kind of doubt that they would still let visitors wander about freely like that.

[workerbee]

One of these days... one of these days, I’ll get over there.

[mdittmar]

Always wanted to live in one of those,guess it’s my love of history,and treasure hunting.

[GeronL]

Nice castles, too bad I can’t pronounce anything Welsh

[originalbuckeye]

Been to Caernarvon, Conwy, Raglan and Beaumaris. All beautiful!

[School of Rational Thought]

Always wished I had a great fortune to completely restore a castle to its original state.

Wonder how much money it would take.

A related fantasy is to magically restore great structures like the Coliseum.

[School of Rational Thought]

http://medievalcastles.stormthecastle.com/

more castles

[SampleMan]

Visited 6 of them in 1986

[RetiredTexasVet]

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.

[Ditter]

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.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.

[moovova]

I've always thought a membership in the The Royal Oak Foundation (Americans in Alliance with the National Trust of England Wales and Northern Ireland) would be the way to go if visiting castles and other famous places in Great Britain. Annual membership for a family is only $115 and gets you into a ton of places either free or at greatly reduced rates. Or so the website says...

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.

[1010RD]

Why do people park their boats on the beach in the first photo? What’s with the giant golden mushrooms in the second one?

[1010RD]

Er was the last castle owned by Mr. T?