Craignethan Castle

As I was bored, and Lissa was preoccupied at a fancy artsy coffee shop with a lady from church, I decided to take the rental car and check out another random castle. There are so many available for tour, the locals haven't seen most of them.

Craignethan, is a Castle ruin from 500 years ago. It belonged to a guy that became friends with King James and got a Castle out of the deal. It's called brown nosing. Quite a generous deal, until the English came, destroyed the Castle and that is history in Scotland.

Interesting fact: in the next couple of years, Scotland is having a referendum vote. This is to decide if it will become a separate state from English and gain it's own complete sovereignty. Over half of the population do not want independence. I'm staying out of this debate, but it's pretty interesting situation nonetheless.

The castle is surrounded by a large gorge very similar to Elora Gorge in Canada.

This castle was a ruin, but for a Canadian, any Castle is better then no castle. It also had creepy cat-loving lady on staff. She reminded me of Angela from 'The Office TV Show', in 20 years. Or of a teacher I've had in my past. I was immediately on her bad side, and I didn't even tell her I hate cats.