~Precious Moments~: Day trip to Culzean Castle~

Surprised? Another blog is out, and you're reading it! Anyway, we went on to another trip on 3rd of Oct and this time its to ---> Culzean Castle !

A slight intro to this place before i start, just to give u guys some understanding. Culzean castle is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa but is now owned by the National Trust of Scotland.

Again, this is another batch trip, however there were less people as the seats were very limited and closing date was kinda unexpected. Anyway, those who were weill informed managed to register on the last day so...yay...seats for us! This time, we had to get up even earlier than the previous week...9.15am at Geroge Square! Tat means waking up at 7am to get ready and prepare lunch since lunch wasn't provided. >.<

We arrived at the meeting place earlier than we thought as we were afraid that we might miss the coach. We waited and waited...and yet 9.30am it still hasn't arrived! Our patiences were wearing thinner and thinner and suddenly, it started to drizzle and not long after, the evil strong wind tagged along!

It was so damn cold and so we tried to squeeze around to keep ourselves warm but tat didnt helped much =.= coz the wind was penetrating our jackets and peircing our skin! After a couple more minutes of waiting, the coach finally came and everyone went up couldnt wait to get in there for shelter.

Our Coach! " Ann's Coaches "

It took us about 1 hour and 20 minutes to reach Culzean Castle and Country Park. Anyway, we went around exploring the places before heading to the castle for a tour scheduled at 2pm. Firstly, we entered the home farm ( originally a farm b4 they changed it into shops and restaurants ) and behind it was the ocean ! From here, we could peep through and see the castle which was facing the ocean as well. How nice! The strong waves were crushing and smashing against the rocks...it was just so beautiful! Imagine what would happen if u just accidentally fall into the water! I think I'll freeze to death first before I could even die of drowning! * Pictures are all in fb *

First group picture in front of the Home Farm

A clearer view of Home Farm without us blocking it

We had to take more 5 times of this picture coz our hair was like flying everywhere and covering our faces each shot we take!

Woohoo! We're HERE!

Later on, we continued our journey to other places such as the deer park. Deers were there obviously and so were the sheeps hehe.. Baaa... Anyway, we then say good bye to the deer and walked all the way to a secret garden! Ok, its not so secretly at all, i just said it so that it sounded more special and magical. XD

It is named Walled Garden,
i guess the reason why they called it that is because the garden is surrounded by high walls..probably to aviod ppl from plucking all their lovely flowers? ^^ According to the guide who gave us a tour around the castle, these flowers are usually taken during weddings held in the castle. There are also 6 hotel rooms in the castle available! But we didn't get to see it, not even a peep! =( Only hotel guests are allowed.

Ok, back to the gardens...12.30pm -lunch time! Guess where we had our packed lunch? In the green house! Haha.. Somewhere to enjoy our meal in the warm and cozzy house. After taking more pictures and playing around, we headed back to the castle just in time for the tour. So many things to look at...but unfortunately no cameras were allowed in there so... i took pictures with my eyes and saved it in my head hehe! Chik chak!

Entrance to Walled Garden

Beautiful isn't it!?

Different flowers with unique colours everywhere~ How could anyone resist taking pictures here?

MUFY students of year 2007 say :
M for Monash, U for University, F for Foundation and..Y for Year!!!

Full of baby "oranges" on the ground.
( dunno what those were..but it looked like oranges in tiny version to me hehe ^^ )

Me and one of the flowers I chose. 

~Culzean Castle~
( pls ignore my fat face there, just wanted to give u a better view of the castle..been eating too much, time to exercise! )

Another one with the garden, didnt have time to go down there >.<

Anyway, that's about all i guess...oh wait..after the tour ,still had a some time so we went to the beach near by. There was a strong smell..and yes indeed..the smell of sea water and seaweeds... Hmm...missed the ocean/ sea wat eva back in M'sia...my hometown Penang..T.T... the seawater back there was so warm but erm..dirty.. but here...so cold and not so clean anyway..