In the rolling countryside of Aberdeenshire, Fyvie Castle is one of the largest and most magnnificent castles in Scotland. There is a massive tower house with very long wings, and is adorned with turrets, dormer windows, carved finials and gables.
It was built in 1214. The Gordons owned in 1733, and the Leith family in 1889. In 1982 it was acquired by the National Trust for Scotland. Lady Leith was an American from St. Louis Missouri. She met her husband when he travelled to San Francisco. They married, and he made his fortune in the steel industry, near Chicago.
PRINCE CHARLES CELEBRATED HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY AT THIS CASTLE.
The first Earl of Dunfermline, allegedly locked his first wife in the tower room and starved her to death. She could not produce a male heir. She now haunts the castle, and even when we visited, there had been sightings very recently. The Earl remarried. Her ghost carved her name on the windowsill of the newlyweds' bedroom, the night they were married, D LILLIES DRUMMOND is carved on the windowsill. 
We picked fresh rasberries in the garden.
A sand sculpture on the beach....
We picked fresh rasberries in the garden.In the small town of Turriff near the Castle we ate at the Muldrum House restaurant.
The Queen will be here to celebrate the 150th year of the Turriff games next week.
The Queen will be here to celebrate the 150th year of the Turriff games next week. We loved this area of Scotland......
PORTSOY
A sand sculpture on the beach....and footprints of Van Gogh........
NEXT STOP - EDINBURGH.......
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