Back in touch (up to a point)

[shewhomust]

This is where I have been since I last posted. It is a Scottish tower house called the Casle of Park, in Glenluce. That's our car at the bottom of the picture, and that's our bedroom window at the top (third floor, at the roofline). We have done daily battle with the spiral staircase, which is probably very good for us. We have been staying with D. and valydiarosada and J., doing our own thing during the day and taking turns to cook in the evenings so we could dine together in the splendour of the hall. There is, as I knew, no wifi, but there was quite a lot of sunshine, which I wasn't expecting, and we had fun exploring, and I hope there will be catch-up posts and photos, but we all know how that goes, so don't hold your breath.

Yesterday morning we all went our separate ways. D. and valydiarosada have gone home to their cats; J. is spending the weekend in Moffat before heading to Peebles for more holiday; and durham_rambler and I headed for the west coast to see the major sights of Ayrshire (Culzean Castle and Robert Burns' Birthplace Museum, to be precise). Tomorrow we go back to Kirkcudbright, but for the moment we are staying in a self-catering flat in the middle of Troon Yacht Haven, which is unexpected, but rather fun.

I have just had to write this twice, because the first time round I managed to delete everything I had written when it was nearly complete. So I'm out of time...

Comments

[sartorias]

What fun! Trying to figure out the use of that gigantic window partway up.

[shewhomust]

I think that is the window D. said was originally a gun port - but we couldn't figure out how that could work, since it is quite high up in the end wall of the great hall ...

Mystery window

[durham_rambler]

No, the fake gun port is opposite that window, in a wall you can't see.
If I remember correctly, that's where the garderobe is.

Re: Mystery window

[shewhomust]

With the big window? Surely not!

[anef]

Well done for the staircase!

[shewhomust]

Thank you! It was only when I came to another spiral staircase (in Kirkcudbright's Tollbooth) that I realised that not only had the Castle of Park stairs been high, the individual steps were unusually deep. But I survived.