A few weeks ago we had a couple of days away up in Elgin in Morayshire, north-east Scotland and one of the places we visited was Duffus Castle which as you can see is just a ruin. Apparently it’s one of Scotland’s finest motte and bailey castles.

There’s enough of it still visible to be able to imagine what it was like back in its heyday.

Like all castles it sits on the highest ground but in the photo below you can get an idea of what the surroundings are like, fairly flat for Scotland but there’s obviously some good farmland around.

If you want to read the info board below click on it and it should enlarge.

As we were walking around the area we heard a tremendous roar, it was a fighter jet, followed closely by its companion. It all happened so fast that I just had time to get a quick snap, but by that  time they were quite high up, they had been really low when we first saw them on the horizon. Throughout the afternoon we could hear them from time to time, it’s probably a common occurence for the locals, but it’s quite strange to be walking around a 12th century fortress with jets flying above you.