A visit to Dunrobin castle was on our list of things to do this trip. It's about 50 miles north of Inverness in Sutherlandshire. The castle has been in the same family for over seven hundred years and is currently owned by Lord Strathnaver, whose mother, the dowager countess still lives there. As with other places we've visited, no photography is allowed in the house. ( I think the family who owns Chatsworth has the right idea, take as many pictures as you like and share them with everyone, so they will want to come visit us too!) It really didn't make a lot of sense, as they didn't even have postcards or a guidebook with pictures you could buy. Oh, well. We took pictures of the exterior and garden instead. I did take a couple of pictures in the house, but out the window, of the gardens. I'm a true scofflaw!
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| The garden has a wall and a roadway between it and the ocean. |
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| Looking at the garden through an upstairs window. |
Since we couldn't take pictures in the house, we took them of the garden. It was very chilly and windy, being right beside the ocean, but the walls around the garden protected them a bit.
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| Water Lilies were blooming, even though it was very chilly. |
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| There was a long bank of these blooming to one side; the purple glowed in the sun. |
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| I think of daisies as a summer flower, but here they were blooming like crazy. |
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| Croquet anyone? |
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The garden is Italianate in design.
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