Do mine eyes deceive me? A travel post?! It’s only (hah) been about a year since I went to Scotland! :O! My apologies for super slacking in the realms of Travel Tuesday posts, but I’m back with one today on Urquhart Castle, and hopefully with many more to follow! (Someone please keep me accountable. >_>)
If you missed my previous post on climbing Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, be sure to check that out! I have a bunch more travel posts from Scotland to share…and also of Ithaca…and several other places. We’ll hopefully get to all of em’ by the end of this year! :P
Urquhart Castle in the Scottish Highlands
The Urquhart Castle is situated right next to Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands! It’s one of the biggest castles in Scotland and offers an awesome panoramic view of the lake.
You also get to see Loch Ness, which, if you were anything like I was when I was little and super interested in things like whether the Loch Ness Monster existed/wanted to meet Nessie (we did not meet Nessie), it’s definitely worth a trip! This is probably for the best though.
Address: A82 Road, Drumnadrochit IV63 6XJ, Scotland
Admission Fee: Ā£4.00 (Adult)
Parking: Free! (If I recall correctly…)
Urquhart Castle is open on every day of the year from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30-6 p.m. (depending on what time of year!) The castle is closed on December 25-26 and when there’s adverse weather. Last entry is ~45 minutes prior to closing!
Urquhart Castle was taken over by the English in 1296 and re-taken over by other entities multiple times until 1692, when its gatehouse was blown up to prevent it from ever becoming a military stronghold again.
This castle passed into state care in 1913 and has been a super popular place to visit since then!
They also have a ginormous full-sized + working trebuchet!
- Are you disappointed that I didn’t find Nessie?
- Have you ever been to a castle?
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Love the one year later travel recap :). And looking forward to see more š. Still fun to see pictures of beautiful Scotland. I wish i could go there one day too ! I did visit a fair amount of castle living in old France :) !
haha, procrastination at its finest (but at least I”m finally catching up!? :P )!
That’s awesome! I didn’t get a chance to go to France this time, but hopefully next time! :]!
Aw, I’m sorry you didn’t find Nessie. Beautiful photos though! I think it would be lovely to go to Scotland someday. And don’t worry about being behind on travel posts – I went to London in Sept. 2016 and I STILL haven’t done any of my posts. I swear they are coming – this summer, I hope. :)
-Lauren
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hahaha, I’m glad I’m not the only one! Sending you good thoughts on gettin’ that London trip up on the blog! I love travel posts (they make me wanna travel though, hahaha)!
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Scotland reminds me of when I got proposed to!!!! My husband and I went to St. Andrews so he could play the Old Course and he proposed to me on the 18th hold. Ugh! A friggin’ magical place!
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Aww, that’s awesome! :]!!
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Which one did you quote more, Braveheart or Highlander?
Is it bad that I’ve seen neither of these? ;_; #dontjudgeme ._.
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We visited a lot of castles in Scotland, but didn’t make it as far as Loch Ness. I really want to go back to see more of the Highlands and islands!
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Me too! There was so much we wanted to explore but not enough time! :[
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Sounds and looks like a great place. We are planing a trip to Ireland next year and I’m thinking about putting a trip to Scotland in there too.
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Ah, Ireland is next up on our list of places we want to go in Europe!! Hope you have fun there!
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Wow what a gorgeous trip! Everything looks breathtaking!
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It was so pretty there! :]!
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I was waiting for you to tell us that you found Nessie! Rats!
Looks amazing. I am always in awe of how old everything is in Europe compared to the US. It’s great that its so well preserved. Thanks for sharing!
If only! :O!!
I’m always in awe of that as well! Even being on the east coast vs. the west coast is super different!
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These pictures are absolutely stunning! You definitely have me itching to travel now!
hehehe, I’m making myself wanna go travel again too! *-*
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Looks like a wonderful place to visit! Love the history there. You took great pictures!
Thanks, Jessica! Scotland is such a gorgeous place! *-*
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What a cool place to explore! Iāve always wanted to go to Scotland!!
I donāt know if Iāve ever been to a real castle – but thereās a little one in our park. It wasnāt a royal castle though – just something built in the Great Depression to provide jobs for locals and then they turned it into a kiosk to provide further jobs.
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I hope you get to go sometime! In the meantime, I’m gonna have a lotttt of posts from there, har har.
That’s really cool! We definitely don’t have anything like that over here!
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Farrah your photos are so cool. Looks like a place I would love to visit.
Aww, thanks, Jill! :] It was a fun place to explore!
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Castles are so cool. And just so unlike anything we have here!
Agreed!!
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We went on a trip to Scotland last September! We drove around the entire country and stopped at Urquhart castle. However, we spent too much time at Stirling Castle and we were late to Urquhart and arrived too late for the last entry. So all we got to do was stand at the fence in the parking lot and look at it. Super dissapointed haha. But it was still really neat to look at it!
haha, I feel ya! That’s what happened with us and the Eilean Donan Castle! I’m glad we got to at least check out the exterior though! :]!
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I like castles and old buildings and would love to see this one.
I hope you get to visit it sometime!
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