Pickering Castle, just south of York

To enter Pickering one must pass through two towers, both still mostly standing.

There are stairs up to the hill (motte) on which the keep was built, but real invaders would never use stairs. Real invaders probably didn't have people taking pictures of them when they slipped either.

From the motte we could see the rest of the castle, including several barbarian invaders. Sadly we had no boiling oil to pour on them.

As this was Elisabeth's first castle I took the trouble to lecture to her extensively on the use of pointing to make a picture look more dramatic.

Walking around the old moat (now dry) afforded some dramatic shots of the towers.

In the valley just below Pickering Castle there is a reconstructed steam railway, still providing useful transportation (but mostly just for tourists).

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