Burning Stakes & Random Phone Booths

So you know how in old movies and tales you hear about witches being burned at the stakes. And if you see it in the movies its always a witch being tied to a stake with a circle of fire around her and its in the center of town and there are angry townsmen standing around watching and chanting on. Well........it would appear that since the days of burning witches at the stake have passed, the burning stakes still exist and of course.......they are still in the towns centre. In Inverbervie, the town closest to our house, the burning stake is surrounded by a parking lot now. A parking lot that is parking for most of the town. The first time we parked in the parking lot, to get fish and chips at the town chippery, I looked over at this structure that we parked right next too and said, "Jeff..........is that what I think that is". To which his reply was......."Yep".

The burning stake in Inverbervie

Have I mentioned that phone booths are in the most random places here! You are driving down the road, in the middle of no where at times and suddenly on the side of the road........there's a phone booth! And yes.........they are all over the place here and to the best I can tell, still in working order. Its not like at home, where you would expect to find a phone booth (if we still had phone booths) in front of a store, or just near some sort of public place, etc. Sometimes you will see them and they will be near a row of houses or just by a bus stop, or sometimes around nothing at all. Very random. But most of them are red........like the "London red phone booths".

Random phone booth!

On our journey to Balmoral castle I took a few pictures along the way of some things we seen in a few of the towns.

This was in a little town on our way to Balmoral. It straddles the road.

A church and some other buildings in the same little town