Stalker Castle
is an imposing stone keep located on a small island in Loch Linnhe
along the western coast of Scotland. I discovered the castle
quite by
accident in 1991 while visitng Scotland for the first time.
My wife
and I were checking out of a Bed and Breakfast hotel at Spean Bridge,
when I noticed a postcard of the castle in a tourist display. I
immediatlely recognized the castle as the same one used for the closing
scene of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Being a devout fan
of Monty Python, I decided to visit the castle if at all
possible.
Fortunately, the castle was only half an hour away, so we drove along
Loch Linnhe until we found it. The castle was not accessible by
land
so we made it as far as the shores of the Loch. In 1998 we
visited the
castle a second time when were on vacation with my son Douglas and my
mother Reene. Unfortunately, the castle is open to the public by
appointment only. The picture below was taken during our second
visit
in 1998.
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