Castle review thread.

[Hastur]

I'm in Prague right now. It's beautiful.

Trying to get to the castle but I never seem to get there.

[Montegriffo]

I'm in Prague right now. It's beautiful.

Trying to get to the castle but I never seem to get there.

World's largest castle according to the Guinness book of records. I hope you get a chance to look around.

[ssu]

I'm in Prague right now. It's beautiful.

Trying to get to the castle but I never seem to get there.

If your in Prague, check out the bookstore GLOBE, at Pštrossova 1925/6, 110 00 Nové Město PRAGUE.
A large English bookstore where the American writer-wannabes (like Hemingway et al. in Paris in the start of the 20th Century) hang out. Or hung out twenty years ago. The young American expats were actually funny looking then with their super-hipster looks. Can find interesting books there.

[Okeefenokee]

Let's not forget American castles....

You're just mad it was modeled after a German castle.

[Okeefenokee]

I'm in Prague right now. It's beautiful.

Trying to get to the castle but I never seem to get there.

It was actually around this of year when I went there a couple years ago. Stopped in Pilz on the ride home to get some pils.

I think I got some UAE money I got from an Aussie UAE airlines pilot and his hot stewardesses.

[ssu]

One of the few on a continent.

Fasil Gebbi, Fasilides Castle, built in the 17th Century in Gondar, Ethiopia:

[Montegriffo]

So, I'm at a juggling convention near Oxford and I've got a few options for castle visits on the way home.
There's Uffington castle which is a hill fort and not actually a castle but a series of stoneage earthworks

Oxford castle which was used as a prison

Wallingford castle

or there's Colchester on the way home

At one and a half times the size of the Tower of London's White Tower,[1] Colchester's keep (152 by 112 feet (46 m × 34 m)) is the largest ever built in Britain and the largest surviving example in Europe.[2][3][4] There has always been debate as to the original height of the castle. It has been suggested that the keep was at one time four storeys high, though for a number of reasons, including the peaceful region of the castle and the lack of local stone, it is now thought that it had only two or three.[5] The castle is built on the foundations (or the podium) of the earlier Roman temple of Claudius (built between AD 54–60).[5] These foundations, with their massive vaults, have since been uncovered and can be viewed today on a castle tour.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Authentic Roman skylight.


Srsly tho, that is a beautiful stone building.

[Montegriffo]

Authentic Roman skylight.


Srsly tho, that is a beautiful stone building.

Mostly reused Roman bricks I think. The inside looks very modern but the old walls are exposed . Should be better than the mock Tudor interior of the Boleyn castle I went to last month. I am still searching but so far it's Colchester or the hill fort.
Hopefully there will be evidence of Boudicca's sacking of the city in scorched bricks. Bound to be an exhibition on the Iceni somewhere in the castle.

[Montegriffo]

Authentic Roman skylight.


Srsly tho, that is a beautiful stone building.

Mostly reused Roman bricks I think. The inside looks very modern but the old walls are exposed . Should be better than the mock Tudor interior of the Boleyn castle I went to last month. I am still searching but so far it's Colchester or the hill fort.
Hopefully there will be evidence of Boudicca's sacking of the city in scorched bricks. Bound to be an exhibition on the Iceni somewhere in the castle.

I left Oxford too late to get to Colchester with enough time to look around the castle.

I had done a bit more reading up on it and it turns out it was heavily restored in around 1700 by a man who believed it to be Roman. This explains the red roof tiles.
I think there is enough of the old Norman keep left for it to be worth a visit and it holds one of the largest collections of British Roman artifacts.
Not sure it will satisfy my desire to see classic Norman/Plantagenet era castles though.
I am going to have to make a trip to Wales to see the March (border) castles.




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