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Minimal Outside Maintenance

Kachina624 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:28:54 GMT

At least there's no lawn to mow, driveway to shovel or sidewalk to sweep. Quick trips for fast food might be tricky.

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KathyM23 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:31:05 GMT

@Kachina624 Wonder how they managed to build this castle.

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LTT1 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:34:27 GMT

@Kachina624

@KathyM23

I get acrophobia just looking at that picture!

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Estellee — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:40:29 GMT

Must have been a nightmare to build.

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shoesnbags — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:41:38 GMT

Oh. My. Gosh.

Since I don't like drop-offs of any kind, mountains, etc., just looking at this gives me the willies. But quite an achievement architecturally.

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on the bay — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:50:00 GMT

So funny your comentary @Kachina624!

But really how in the world! does this work?

I actually looked up how can they build castles in the water from your last picture and its a complicated process that also doesn't last for years and years.

A lot of your pictures that you find make me want to find out all about them. Things I've never seen.

But this?! I just can't imagine.

Maybe there is the other side where they cold actually get into the "house."

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cjm61 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:50:51 GMT

I love this @Kachina624 but how in the world do you get into it!

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PA Mom-mom — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:56:34 GMT

@Kachina624 That's really scary, but I don't think it's in Scotland.

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Burnsite — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:07:26 GMT

I think the Robertsons were among the clans who lived here.

UPS would have to use a catapult fo deliver a parcel.

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CelticCrafter — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:09:25 GMT

If you Google it, that's not what it looks like.

It's either photoshopped or someone made a location mistake when the photo was posted.

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cjm61 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:27:42 GMT

@CelticCrafter @PA Mom-mom @Kachina624

Okay, this was so intriguing I researched it. It appears it's not the castle Kachina was told but it looks very much like Predjama Castle. Still incredible.

This is Dunalastair Castle.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:40:41 GMT

There are many monasteries that look similar in China, Nepal and thereabout.

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Cakers3 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:56:41 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
If you Google it, that's not what it looks like.

It's either photoshopped or someone made a location mistake when the photo was posted.

@CelticCrafter I agree. I found a Turkish monastery which matches but not 100%.

Besides we only see the front of the structure while other pictures of similar structures show the back.

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cheriere — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:08:09 GMT

That's just AMAZING!!!🤩

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on the bay — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:50:13 GMT

I looked up Predjama castle too and it does seem to be it. Built originally in the 1200's! and again after an earthquake-yikes!

It said it was built under a natural rocky arch orcave. But still I just can't imagine how they even got the stones up there! Just incredible.

It reminds me of Stonehenge.

How did they build it and so many other things we just don't know.

I always think these are incredible- This may be Collette Italy-

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Venezia — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 03:29:49 GMT

This is it (you can google it):

Sumela Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery originally established around 386 AD nestled on a steep cliff at an altitude of 1200 meters, province of Trabzon, Turkey.

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And I would say they built it one brick at a time, from the ground up.

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Venezia — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 03:46:26 GMT

There's a wonderful video about Dunalastair Castle on YouTube by Aerial Dreamers.

So much architectural beauty in what remains; it must have been wonderful before being vandalized and left to ruin.

Sad to think of those who must've lived there in better times. The stories the walls could tell.

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cjm61 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:45:56 GMT

@on the bay Isn't that Cinque Terra?

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on the bay — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:44:33 GMT

Yes, @cjm61, you are so right and thank you.

That is~

"Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage site, which means that it is a valuable and protected place on earth. Feel like you have stepped back in time when you visit this collection of colorful medieval villages sitting high on the edge of the sea."

This was on the Collette tours website. I think it is so unusual and beautiful. I remember seeing it in a picture years ago.

Also I remembr learning about a tribe in South America that built homes into the cliffs hundreds of years ago.

It is amazing to me the things that have been built.

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AngelPuppy1 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:16:12 GMT

That picture is just -- breathtaking! How in the world did they build that thing? I would think that they would try to preserve it in some way. It's just amazing. Scary looking but awesome!!!