Great Journey 🏴 Day 682
Success story: we made it! We have something like summer. We stow away our thick jumpers and dare to go outside without a rain jacket.
Perhaps my enthusiasm for the books of a certain Scottish story had taken up too much space recently. Here, in Doune Castle, it culminated in a brilliant finale.
Actually, we wanted to get out into the sun quickly and had had enough of castles, but one of those needles in my wish list attracted us (me?). Felix stopped, we were surprised: finally not a finely decorated castle, but a half-ruin. Filming location for many movies, Ivanhoe, The Knights of the Coconut, Games of Thrones and, sure, Jamie & Claire.
There are audio guides that are really well done: You choose your favourite and he tells you about the castle but also about the filming on location. So we spend a lot more time than the size would suggest, I listen to Jamie with his beautiful Scottish-English singsong and I am blown away.
And then it happens: the more I know about the filming and learn how much extra mud had to be brought into the castle, that all the interior shots had to be filmed in replica studios in Liverpool for reasons of space and that the animals that ran back and forth in the marketplace had to be constantly captured, the more the magic evaporated.
I will no longer deliberately visit film locations. It's no fun for me. It disenchants everything and leaves no room for my imagination. I realise that it's not for me.
Gerd smiles with relief, somehow he seems glad that this Outlander thing is finally off the table. For sure. Maybe. Hopefully.
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