‘A Castle By The Sea IV’
The great Welsh travel writer Jan Morris wrote of the sadness of the castle’s history in her book, ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’.
She stated : “It stands on its promontory weeping, and to my eyes even in the sunshine its walls are never sparkling. A pleasant park surrounds it, and its rooms are full of treasures, but nobody who goes there can fail to sense its numen of regret.”
‘A Castle By The Sea III’
…a complicated facade, a neo-gothic delight!..
‘A Castle By The Sea II’
…another aspect of the castle…
‘A Castle By The Sea’
…poor Maximilian and Charlotte
this was meant to be
your forever home
a fantasy castle
by the sea…
‘Castle & Gardens’
‘ No Rules’
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” – G.K.Chesterton
Where the picture is what is what it says on the tin.
Where three things I happen to dig are together in one place.
A tad gloomy I suppose, but at least I’m happy…
It was a dismal weekday afternoon as we trekked towards Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Then, joy of joys, just before our destination I saw some stone stairs leading up to a small cemetery.
Like a rat up a drainpipe, I quickly found my way to this vista, with looming castle battlements to ice the proverbial cake.
Victorian gothic nirvana!
I would have lingered, but my wife and daughter were less than impressed with another funereal photographic detour.
I rejoined them, and when we reached the top of the Hill, the drizzle became hard rain, forming waterfalls down the steps.
So wet, so grey…and I was so happy with it all.
Sometimes I wonder what the f**k is wrong with me.
Faded grandeur on Auckland’s Dominion Road.
Faux castle battlements above the proud name,’Cheapside’.
Peeling grey paint.
A bit down at the heel maybe.
Probably not the future imagined at the laying of its foundations.
But still standing,useful and with purpose after the best part of a century.
Some of us are like this battling building, battered but not broken(alliteration alert!).
And still dreaming of being castles…
ebb then flood 