Fyvie Castle, Zoology Museum (Aberdeen University)

This blog is a mixture of miscellaneous things we've done over the last week in Aberdeen (from 23 Nov until we left for Paris)...don't feel obliged to read it's for us to remember some experiences!
We also went to the zoology museum at the University of Aberdeen and saw lots of interesting animals (all stuffed) and some skeletons too - one of which was a sabre toothed tiger which Matt instantly recognised. There's a hedgehog, a fox, red squirrel, a badger to name a few of them in the photos below...lots of male deer

an elephant skeleton

This is Mase and the kids after playing soccer for an hour at the park down the road - it was a mud field - the kids took great delight in running in front of Mase near the mud patches and making him swerve and then slip over in the mud - they had lots of laughs.

On Sam's birthday 16 Nov we had to drop Mase off at a conference which was North of Aberdeen, so we decided to visit a castle that our neighbour had said we should visit - Fyvie Castle.

The visiting times to tour the interior of the castle were over but we thought it was worth seeing the grounds. The castle was really quite impressive. Very tall and imposing. We walked through the enclosed vegetable garden which in its time had been sufficient to maintain the castle inhabitants. It had been designed to keep the rabbits out - so it was a thick, high stone wall with black wrought iron gates with meshing down to the ground. The photo below gives you an idea of the size of the gates and therefore the whole castle...