As you can see Elgin Cathedral is a ruin, building started here in the 1200s but the Protestant Reformation in the 1560s was its demise, although there’s a lot more of it still standing than many other cathedrals, it’s well worth going to see, we were impressed.

It doesn’t look like it but you can get up to the very top of both towers although you have to be fairly fit as it’s a very long way to the top up very narrow spiral staircases, but it’s worth it and there are ‘landings’ which you can have a rest in and they have exhibits of lots of the stone carvings which had decorated the outside of the cathedral in its heyday. As you can see from the photos below you get a great view from the top.

You need a head for heights. The modern town is right next to the cathedral. The landscape is not fantastic it’s too flat for my liking but when you drive just a few miles out of  Elgin the countryside becomes much more hilly and scenic.

But there’s a nice park looking to the north from the cathedral. We were there in April when the cherry trees were still blooming.

I’ll show you some of the carvings tomorrow.