A few weeks ago we went up to Aberdeenshire, for one night only, it was mainly so that Jack could go to a football match, but as you can see we managed to visit Castle Fraser too, which is good as I’m really not much interested in football. The earliest part of the castle dates from 1575, you can read about it here.

It was a grey morning and really quite freezing and slightly misty for mid April.

The castle is in the Scots baronial style which is more akin to the pepperpot towers so beloved of medieval European castles than anything that you would find elsewhere in the UK.

The photo below is of the Great Hall.

Below is the library, a room I could have spent a long time in, apart from the books it was the warmest!

The doorways are very ornate.

We of course slogged up to the top of the tower to get a good view of the surrounding area.

In the distance we could see the walled garden, so we made our way carefully back down the long spiral staircase so we could go and get a closer look at it. I’ll leave the photos of the garden for another blogpost. Castle Fraser is definitely worth seeing