At the end of last week we drove up to Aberdeenshire in the north-east of Scotland to spend a couple of nights there, we were so lucky with the weather. We spent our time running around various castles, Pictish stones, halls and gardens, the first one we went to was Cragievar Castle which we had never been to before. It’s pink!

Obviously it’s in the Scots Baronial style, sadly you aren’t allowed to take photos inside, but it is lovely, despite it having very steep spiral stone stairs which get narrower as you get towards the top, which was the domain of the servants, so it didn’t matter much if they broke their necks falling downstairs! They slept four to a bed. But they did live in a beautiful part of the country as you can see from the photo below, they may not have had much time to appreciate it though.