Dunnotar Castle

 

Thanks to Mr Linky for fixing the IE gap issue in seconds. :-) [blenza_autolink ww]

38 Responses to “Wordless Wednesday”
  1. Donna says:

    Absolutely breathtaking!

  2. bee says:

    well not that is amazing… wow.

    bee

  3. Alison says:

    I like that…have I seen this one before? BTW I’m getting a big gap on my screen between the pic and the comments box for some reason…

  4. Skittles says:

    I would love to spend some time in a place like that!

  5. mags says:

    Look at that gnarly land! And oh, the view….

    Great choice!

  6. Chris says:

    Alison – it’ll be your browser and/or the various office firewall/security stuff…

    Skittles, plot against the King and you would have done!

    Mags – it’s something special – Dunnotar Castle in Aberdeenshire.

  7. Oh my goodness – that is stunning.

    I’ve always wanted to visit your part of the world, and this is just one more reason why.

  8. Maggie says:

    Wow. That is amazingly beautiful. Great Shot.

  9. Beautiful…looks like the scene from the movie “The Rock” with Sean Connery! : )

  10. David Airey says:

    I had to follow your lead and post a photo of a castle from my own home country.

  11. Steph says:

    If it’s looking familiar it’s because it was used in the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet….

  12. wow! thats beautiful!

  13. Chris says:

    The Mel Gibson version?

    ‘Alas poor Yorick, it was all the Jews fault…’

    That one?

    Or the one where the evil, gurning British Redcoats enslaved the free world with their death rays? I’m not sure….

  14. Morgen says:

    Beautiful photo.
    Laughing at the Mel Gibson version…

  15. Claire says:

    I think i have been there with my dad? but not sure!
    Excellent shot though.
    The super bad boy filters clean the tank, if not the dad does it, they are his babies!lol!

  16. Rose says:

    Great shot Chris. Off topic do you realize that your theme is all messed up. The photo is overlapping the theme & there is a huge gap.

  17. Chris says:

    Hi Morgen & Claire – who’s the super bad boy?

    Rose, it looks fine to me in FF & IE.

    What browser do you use? There was a huge gap earlier caused by the autolinks, but that’s been fixed. Try a ctrl-F5 refresh & see if that improves matters.

  18. Claire says:

    Bad boy filters!

  19. Sanni says:

    Absolutely stunning and breathtaking! Where is it taken?

  20. I thought it was Fast Castle for a minute…though I only saw that one shrouded in fog. THAT was cool.

    My best memory of Braveheart was my mom yelling ‘ENGLISH BASTARDS’ really loudly in the movie theatre…..sigh.

    William Wallace and Robert the Bruce are her heroes…and NOT the way they were portrayed in the MG movie…

  21. L.L. Barkat says:

    Oh, to be there, sea breeze in my face, salt in the air…

  22. Starrlight says:

    What a cool picture? How old is that? Looks Normanesque!

  23. Rose says:

    I took a screen capture and sent it you. I’m viewing it in Firefox and it does not look right.

  24. Sunflower says:

    It is somewhere in the U.K.?
    I want to vist U.K. then:-)

    I will Exercise for Comments!
    Sunflower

  25. Chris says:

    It’s Dunnotar Castle near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The steps are hard work, but worth it.

    Thanks Rose, I’ve checked it on 2 PC’s, with 2 different versions of FF, IE6, IE7 and two different monitors at two different resolutions and it looks fine. It looked like that this morning in IE, but MrLinky’s fix cured that. Pass?

  26. Rav`N says:

    wow. puuuurty. looks like something out of a fantasy movie or novel

  27. anyhow says:

    Beautiful castle

  28. webduck says:

    Gorgeous! A beautiful picture Chris.

  29. Rose says:

    Your photos are still overlapping in FF and in IE there is a huge gap. I viewed in IE 6 and in IE 7 and I had my husband view it on his computer. He also took a screen cap for you. He is viewing at 800 x 600 too and I’m viewing at 800 x 600.

    If we set our screen res to 1024 x 768 the gap dissapears.

    Hey it is your blog, I just thought that you might like to know that is is still messed up if someone is viewing at 800 x 600. Be well!

  30. Bob! says:

    What a beautiful view. Hoping to get up to Aberdeenshire at some point this year to see all the castles and ruins in the area.

  31. Chris says:

    You won’t regret it Bob!

    Thanks Rose, I just can’t replicate that effect, so I can’t fix it! I didn’t think anyone used 800×600 anymore, you must have icons an inch square ;-)

  32. Pinksy says:

    This looks like the castle at the end of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

  33. Asara says:

    That’s so pretty.. I should have been born in Europe. sigh. And no it doesn’t look like the MP&tHG castle! That one was big and square, and surrounded by water, and full of silly French cow-flinging type persons. And also not ruined, to the best of my memory. But what can ya do?

  34. Chris says:

    I think the MP castle was in Wales… Denbigh?

    Yeah, America’s great, but for tripping over history every where you walk, you need to pay us a visit. :-)

  35. Asara says:

    I went to England once.. got to see Stonehenge, and all the big sights in London.. I did NOT NOT NOT NOT want to go home!!

  36. Chris says:

    Come to Scotland – We’ve got way better stone circles than Stonehenge!

  37. Rose says:

    A well design site is designed to be viewed at all screen resolutions and FYI there are many still viewing at 800 x 600. A

    ccording to Google Analtics 1,435 people still view my community todays-woman.net at 800 x 600 and 85 people view by blog at 800 x 600 where 246 view at 1024×768 and 86 view at 1280×1024.

    My point is that if my blog was not design to fit all screen resolutions than that is 85 people who would be seing a large gap when they view my blog.

    FYI I’m using a 17 monitor and my icons are just fine.

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