Bodium Castle. The recreational time i spent with mum before here departure and my road trip. I particularly enjoyed this castle, as it was reasonably intact with cool spiral staircases you could climb and impressive to look at. It's moat housed a large population of carp and ducks. The carp would come over to you and poke their heads out the water and the ducks would swim over them to piss them off. It was cool to watch.
In the 40's they built a pillbox (gun position) in the grounds by the castle to defend against the Germans. It was never needed in the end.
Pillbox.
Carp and Ducks.
Mum at the gatehouse. Complete with a portcullis, machicolations, arrow loops and murder holes.
Once, the walkway came from the right side from over the moat to the central island before the outer gatehouse (only the left portion remains) so the archers could fire at the attackers over a greater distance before the got any closer to the entrance. They would then have to try and get through the outer gatehouse, then across the drawbridge (which would have been drawn) and then encounter stones and projectiles thrown from the machicolations and arrows shot from the arrow loops, try and break through the portcullis and if they made it that far, they would have to deal with scalding hot water or tar poured down at them from the murder holes... Fuck that!
The portcullis. You can see the machicolations, or floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement. And then, at the bottom of the photo you can see the light shining through one of the murder holes.
Surprisingly hard to climb. A good defensive measure. Attackers where always at the disadvantage.
Inside the grounds.
The well.
The kitchen. That fireplace was a few feet taller than me! See the bread oven built into the left side of the fireplace.
Mum's idea!
Just amazing. I fucking love this shit!
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