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Scotland's Castles and the Aberdeenshire Castle Trail Step back in time on Scotland's only Castle Trail. Aberdeenshire is matchless in the richness of its castle tradition, and Scotland's Castle Trail brings together some of the most splendid examples of castellated architecture together on a clearly sign-posted tourist trail. But don't stop there -- there are many gorgeous castles to be explored scattered all across the landscape of Scotland, and each of them worth leaving the beaten t...

'Dracula's ruin' comes back from the dead Slains Castle, reputedly the inspiration for the vampire's fortress, is to become holiday flatsPaul Kelbie The Observer Sunday October 14 2007 Silhouetted against an expanse of fields that were once the scene of a bloody slaughter of the Danes by the Scots, the ruins of Slains Castle casts an eerie shadow over a rocky coastline where, legend has it, the ghosts of shipwrecked sailors emerge from their watery graves once a year.   Now the dra...

June-July 2007.