Exploring Scotland 1 Castle at a Time, Part 17, The Old Kirk andThe Rodney Stone at Brodie Castle
We stayed in some beautiful unusual places. The Old Kirk was one of them. It was a traditional Scottish kirk built in 1856 converted into a bed and breakfast. Hillary and Herbie McFarland were our hosts. The McFarlands had retired, moved from Ireland to Scotland and bought the place specifically to run as a bed and breakfast. It’s a gorgeous place. Its location was just outside Forres in Dyke which is in the Moray area. It had a very large double sitting room upstairs for the guests so you could relax there if you didn’t want to stay in your room. I’m a night owl so I enjoyed being able to write late at night without disturbing my traveling companion. Excuse my clutter on the table. I had set up my lap top on the table in the center to work on and was the only one up. And the stained glass window that took up one whole wall didn't hurt to look at every time I was thinking something through. Talk about great working conditions. We stayed at the Old Kirk for two ...