Castle Gloom

We went to Castle Campbell near Dollar today (used to be known as Castle Gloom with River Care on one side and River Sorrow on the other). It was a nice drive up, which I slept through, but apparently we drove across the river Forth! At least the Sat-Nav seemed to think so...


She didn't speak to Mummy and Daddy for a while after that - they think she was sulking.

When we got there, Daddy parked quite far away from the Castle and we went for a walk through Dollar Glen. It was good fun, following the Dollar Burn and then the River Care. Mummy thought it looked too far and too steep for me, but I insisted on walking, so she went back for the car and drove up close to the Castle so I wouldn't have to walk back. It was a really nice walk though, just a narrow muddy path along the side of the river with bits of bridge where the sides of the glen were too steep. We met Mummy near the end and she walked with us up to the Castle. Daddy told me that it was just as well Mummy hadn't come with us because she couldn't have coped with the walk and even more so couldn't have coped with me walking it with a steep slope to a fast flowing river on one side!

The castle was quite nice. Not a lot to see but an extremely nice gentleman manning the shop. He stamped our book (it's a Historic Scotland castle) and gave us all head-torches for seeing the tower. Daddy and I had our required sword-fight in the top floor of the tower and then we went onto the roof for another wee fight and to take in the fantastic views.


After the tower, there isn't much to see except a couple of cellars where they used to do selling. While we were looking at them it started to rain quite heavily. We waited in the shelter of the castle for a break in the rain and then headed for the car. The car park is up a very steep road which is crossed by a river (Mummy says that is a called a ford - fortunately there was a little bridge or I would have got very wet and cold) and I needed some encouragement but got there eventually - for a packet of crisps and some chocolate! Then it was off to Auntie Vikki's to see the Marlows and my new cousin Dylan for a bit. He's very sweet but he sleeps a lot and isn't big enough to play with yet. But, then, he is only 5 weeks old.