Gordon Castle: Inside The Stronghold Of The Scottish Reformation | American Viscountess

[Music] Scotland land of Glens and locks wild terrain and far reaching Skies it is spectacular I'm heading Northeast to the heart of the spay Valley to the historic home of one of Scotland's oldest families Gordon [Music] Castle when I married into the British aristocracy it was the start of a wonderfully exciting Journey but it was also a little daunting I became a VI Countess and for an American girl from a small town outside Chicago that was quite a shock I live with my husband Luke heir to the Earl of Sandwich and our family at maon house in Dorset living in a place like this is a joy but also a challenge and every day we're aware that we're preserving a very special part of Britain's heritage [Music] materon has opened up an extraordinary new world for me and I can't wait to share it with you all so if you love castles and manners and stately homes as much as I do please join this American bountis as I journey into the British Countryside in search of some of Britain's Finest historic houses [Music] Gordon Castle once one of Scotland's largest houses is the family home of the Gordon lennox's and I cannot wait to find out about its history hello hello hello how lovely to see you again go it's so nice to see you brilliant right and look at I keep saying I bring the Sun or maybe you brought the Sun for me you're very happy not always like this although anged me to come and live here by saying it was the sunniest place in Scotland which is probably true it's a relative term though so tell me just a little bit about the history of Gordon Castle my fourbears built a castle here in 1460 or something but didn't live here it was just one of their many houses and were actually based in Huntley but when the Huntley Castle started to fall down about 1690 they moved here and made this their principal residence principal residence um but it wasn't big enough for them even though it was really quite big this was this originally built because to me as I look at it it looks like a real Fortress was it built to defend well I think the original bit was built around the Tower and the but but actually the fourth Duke of Gordon um decided to turn it into a show house so he extended it enormously and actually because it was all rather romantic he put the battlements on there weren't really any battlements before sort of stuff but it was he turned it into absolutely huge house and you can only see about a fifth of it now cuz my grandfather knocked it all down so at its Heyday which was from the 1770s until about the 1940s it was 569 ft long so it was a it was a huge place we're a bit relieved that it's not that big anymore [Music] you mentioned Duke of Gordon now where did the Duke D come from clearly obviously through a member of the royal family but and how did that come about now you say the northeast of Scotland was very Gordon Centric um and my my history is probably not good enough to tell you exactly how it became but he was called the Marx of Huntley and then um one of the Marx of Huntley was created the Duke of Gordon okay I mean they had enormous lands in Scotland about 300,000 Acres um of which this was their main residence right but the fifth Duke so the son who'd had a very good Peninsula war and all sorts of things he he died without issue that he was prepared to talk about okay um so he left this to his nephew so his sister the fifth Duke's sister so this was in 1836 the fifth Duke's sister had married someone called the Duke of Richmond who lived at a place called Goodwood down in Sussex of course and um and his son the then Duke of Richmond inherited all 300,000 acres and this place and they lived part of the Year up here and part of the Year down at Goodwood so this was brought into the Goodwood family got you and then roll on a Century effectively right um and there had been massive death duties and um all that sort of stuff really on really on a Century and all the Scottish lands were sold in the 1930s and 40s okay um but my grandfather who had been brought up here by his grandfather the Duke of Richmond Gordon obviously his cousin had Goodwood at that stage and he approached the people that this had been sold to and said I'll take the house off your hands and at that stage the house was falling down had dry rot where where there wasn't dry rot there was wet rot and all this sort of and he said I'll take the house off your hands I'll give you a little bit of money if you throw in some fishing and a bit of farming sadly not the 300,000 Acres that we used to have this is really poignant time in history because you've mentioned the death duties and this is something as historic house homeowners you really look at that period of what the first and second world war did the you know those who were meant to inherit some of them were lost at War then on top of that you had the death duties especially if they were if they never came back from the war sometimes double death duties because the Great War in the second world war were so close together and that really started those that 1950s where it was the the destruction of the country house and you mentioned that this was sort of pulled down this was pulled down during that period so the tower that you can see here was joined up to the hole of this castle and the hole of this Wing that was exactly the same the other side of the tower as well but the main Mansion block was in the middle was in the middle the middle right because his father had been killed at deep in the first world war so that's why his grandfather had brought him up here and at Goodwood right because he he had no father he had a love affair with this place and he had a he was a career Soldier but when he retired he came and lived here and converted this Wing into a family house right W where anger spent a lot of his summer holidays because his father was also in the Army and was also a general so they traveled around didn't you Germany and Hong Kong and wherever so this was very much home based right and so he spent a lot of child years memories I've got wonderful memories yeah yep no I mean I mean you have to love a place like this to even think about taking it on frankly um you really you got to have em which is actually why we did what we do to the to the castle so we had um great fun we did it up to within an inch of its life and it wasn't great fun re-plumbing rewiring in the middle of the winter where we could only have sight meetings with the builders for 15 minutes in the castle cuz it was so cold that it was actually 6 degrees warmer outside than it was inside the castle with no heating no whatever you've been able to evolve it as a couple into making it and that's what we have all many to economically viable is Bott line we go to a try to make it economic viable B it's too big for the just two of us our children are grown up and living in the South um so what we do is we rent it out to fishing parties and and wedding parties and all sort entertainment and things like that um but we keep some weeks back so next the week after next we'll be completely full of all our children and their friends and that's frankly that's why we do it um but the reality is the roof needs to stay on yes um we got to pay the people that look after the gardens we've got to pay the groundsmen and all that sort of Stu and the upkeep the maintenance and the upkeep of stonework of floors of you know Windows everything the the everything and um so but it was worth those sort of 15 minute in the freezing cold meetings to to replum to rewire to redecorate to get the furniture so you've made it yeah it's really important that these houses are lived in you know that that's what gives it um its uniqueness is the fact that it's full of you know laughing teenagers or tiny children or I've got granddaughters now coming up and learning how to fish and running around the castle you know and it's really exciting and then for sort of paying guest it's of giving them a taste of being really beautifully looked after in a really beautiful surroundings um and they can take those memories away with them as well and we love seeing that we love seeing people enjoy the castle as much as we do fantastic um brilliant so should we head in yeah why why didn't we go this way [Music] okay come on in wow wonder wonderful all my old relies so where I'm walking in right now would have been part of well in the old castle this was actually a kitchen and so and where they would have been eating is about 100 yards away so can you imagine how cold the food would have been but this my grandfather remembers riding a bicycle on the thing above here um from one end to the other see it was extraordinary you've converted that into into actually my grandparents converted the hall into the hall and they put this staircase back in cuz the staircases had all collapsed this is rather a grand room and the reason it's a grand room is that um with these pillars Etc is that this was the DOW duchess's apartment here I mean it looks properly done up this is the two of you is that right yeah wow and then dotted around so that is the fifth Duke of Gordon so that's the fifth and he didn't have any errors is that he was a he helped ra the Gordon Highlanders together with his dad and his mother actually called G Gordon and then the next one is my great great grandfather who's the seventh Duke of Richmond and Gordon by that stage okay and he this place was absolutely in its Heyday when he was alive and then this this is my grandfather right who also had a good War General s General he's the one that's really one that brought it bought it back yes changed it yes lived here and and he wasn't a wealthy man cuz he was just a career Soldier so when he knocked down all of that part of the castle he actually sold the stone no no he sold the lead off the roof and the lead off the roof which then put the roof back on this part of the castle clever built the staircases bu the St staircase but it's quite fun he has always had a very Bey stair and sometimes when you're out there in the garden you can see through all the way through and he he's always watching me making sure you're doing a you know he saved it and now you've got to continue and so the fifth Duke is there and you mentioned his father and that's the one that you mentioned earlier as well that he's the one that sort of built the Gordon Castle into the show Castle exactly every it's really important in those days to have 365 windows so was Keeping Up With The Changes wasn't it everyone in the South was extending their houses massively and I think we're very grateful because it means that the windows are huge they're not from the tiny keep and castle from a typical Scottish built to defend with tiny slit Windows F arrows that part was around the tower but when he extended we got this wonderful light these huge big Windows lovely big ceilings flat walls [Music] fantastic experience the past like never before with history hits award-winning original documentaries and adree podcasts with our expert historians like Dan snow Susanna lipam Lucy Worley Mary beard Tristan Hughes and myself Matt Lewis sign up for an exclusive discount using the link in the description and embark on your historical Journey from the wonders of ancient Egypt and the life of an berin to the rise of Napoleon bonapart and the discovery of shackleton's endurance get history Wherever Whenever EX exclusively on History hit oh this is lovely absolutely lovely so as a lot of Scottish houses had these entertaining rooms upstairs but it is also why um we do have a bit of an odd layout in the castle because it was the kitchen downstairs so to try and get it up to how people live today yes um is you know means that we've got some bedrooms downstairs some bedrooms upstairs right so commercially speaking if I were to come here as a as a guest I can hire out rent out we don't rent out rooms so this is not a hotel the whole house house that's what I mean so you feel we want people to feel that they are genuinely living here at home at home for their week so it's fully staffed and fully CED it's quite highend so again during the state we try to cater for everybody so if you want to be beautifully looked after with a butler with a chef with people making your beds then you can stay in the castle if you want to do self-catering you can take one of our wonderful Cottages dotted around the EST one of those Cottages which we did up last year is called kennel's Lodge and that's where the original Gordon Setters were were were bed tell me about this so go so that really does come from your family name it does but they are mad dogs so the Duke said when he bred them he said he wouldn't take them shooting until they were at least three or four years old because they were a bit scatty and they weren't trustworthy on the mall forever being a lot of exercise we forever being asked is why we haven't got a gold sh I was just about to ask you that we will one day we one day we no no we I'm absolutely planning it now we're just about to um hire a new a new gamekeeper right and he is going to be the lucky recipient of a golden set of puppy fantastic now the W Garden as I'm in here where is that in relation to straight on so it's about quarter mile that way okay oh wow so it's a nice good shot but there was so what we can see now is the garden that angus's grandmother laid out to be in the front of this house okay originally everything was focused on the tower cuz that was the center of the castle right so there was an incredible path called the broadwalk um which led you up to the wall garden and the reason the wall Garden was so big was because obviously back in the day it was like feeding a village so you might have invited you know your 12 friends to come and stay but they didn't just come 12 friends like we do now they bought their Butler their maid their housemid um the stable boy the someone to look after the coaches so the downstairs like in down and ABY the downstairs was actually probably bigger than the people upstairs by some considerable margin so the reason that the wool Garden was so large was because it was feeding a huge amount of people um and so the path to the wall Garden was focused on the tower so can we head out there and have a look because that is really something I want to talk to you both [Music] about the historic Walled Garden at Gordon Castle is one of the oldest and largest kitchen Gardens in [Music] Britain its renewal and redesign is Zara and angus's inspiring vision to help secure the future of this stunning home in estate [Music] okay I'm actually speechless right now this is like everything I could have ever dreamed of for a Walled Garden plus you are garden of the Year 20121 historic houses is that right the year after mton after you showed us how you showed us way yeah we were it was very special but I can see why now talk to me about this cuz this really is a labor of love and your big project here at Gordon Castle is that right well it's one of many projects but it's certainly the biggest and and I think that yeah we just decided it was just a a field moon for grass and we decided that it should be the backstory to all our products and in order to make it the back story we thought we' better make it look pretty amazing and to be honest my rather amazing wife has been the one that's mostly done it and you're completely right A labor of love mostly her labor I think we B felt even when it was a grass field that it was a magical space yes and angus's dream was right let's create products that we can have shelf life that can have added value that we can get to centers of population whether that be Edinburgh London New York um you know globally um I mean hopefully start nationally but then go globally to create some kind of income that would then support the garden so having this and the rest of this EST well the estate exactly so having these products he was very keen on the Gin I'm a non-drinker so that was very much his baby so he wanted to grow Botanicals in the garden to flavor our gin and I wanted to do a bath and body range of products cuz I thought we could grow herbs and essential oils and have wonderful fragrances to naturally fragrance our bath and body products so that's how it started and then it kind of morphed into a bit of a monster and that we thought oh gosh well if we're doing this we shouldn't just grow it as a Market Garden which angus's grandmother had done and grown raspberries in here we should actually make it beautiful um so then we asked um I mean as you can see on a day like today a magical space so the the the thought about making it beautiful was that it might attract if we got a big name we might attract more people to come visit it and pay the entrance fee and things like that well I interviewed four quite famous garden designers and one of them thought we were mad and that was the one that was probably right and one of the she said it would never work it would be way too expensive ridiculous do you think about it um one of them one of them wanted to put buildings everywhere and I said look we've got a limited budget we can't put buildings everywhere yeah one of them wanted to turn it back into the original Victorian Edwardian Garden right and the fourth one was Arie mayard so I realized suddenly that actually Not only was he rather inspirational designer but he was a really Keen kitchen gardener but also we decided that I mean can you imagine you're faced with eight Acres a completely blank canvas and I'm not a trained horticulturalist so I would have probably done you know a little bit here and then a little bit there and by you know 10 years AG it would have looked a complete mess so we couldn't afford to have someone build a sort of instant Chelsea Garden but we did want to have a template you know a master plan to work to so we knew that we couldn't afford to buy very mature trees everything was going to have to be a tiny plug plant because you know the lavender we needed 3,000 lavender plants so we had to buy them as Tiny plug plants cuz that was all we could afford right um so we knew it was going to take between 5 and 10 years for the garden to be built just doing the hard Landscaping I mean which we still haven't finished we've laid 48,000 bricks just to do the edges of the path two and a half I'm sorry can you repeat that number 48,000 bricks two and a half kilm of path within this Garden so um 2 and a half km of path but do you feel a great sense of walking through here now this great sense of satisfaction I know it's really hard work and from what I've been sort of told as I've been walking around is you are sort of on your hands and knees in the I do count myself as a gardener yes you know I am part of the gardening team and if I'm not here you know 40 hours a week less weeding is massive so um so yeah I do count myself as a gardener and what's interesting is when you're working in the garden every day all you see is the stuff you haven't quite finished or you need to change or you haven't done all the weeding or the mess or the whatever whereas when people like you come and we have to dig out some old photographs of what it was like as a grass field that's probably the only times that I really think wow it does look like a garden so for years and years you know one tiny Square looked a bit like a garden but the whole rest of it was a mound of Earth diggers you know it looked like a building side and now it is a Haven for insects and butterflies and the most tranquil of places to spend a glorious Scottish Summer Afternoon what a spellbinding transformation I just want to jump in to this all of this and taste it all so explain to me so this is one of our vegetable beds so basically the design is that we have four big vegetable beds on the corners of the central part of the garden okay um this is our Brasa bed this year so you can see wonderful uh kale purple spriting broccoli we've got various different types of kale cauliflower um every vegetable you could possibly imagine ready but also a lot of companion planting so we've got this wonderful tajes we do this white alisam here and it's edged with this um cat min napita um Persian blue around the edges which has sadly just gone over before you've arrived but it was very vibrant BL tracks hundreds of bees so it's all about you know sustainable gardening we don't use sprays we don't use pesticides on the fruit and all of this which would have originally gone to the castle to feed all of those people now goes to the cafe this is Lush this is green I want to eat it all it's ready to be you know uh thrown into something and and um made into a recipe but the season I here I am in Scotland I'm quite far up north very far up north I mean we're lucky here we're close to the Murray Coast so we don't have those really harsh Winters that up the mountains you would have I mean we do get snow and we certainly get Frost but it's nothing like as bad as in the highlands themselves so we have a pretty sort of Mile clim we have the the wind that's our worst thing for you know people come to the W G oh you've got the huge 15t walls all around the garden it must protect well as you can see now you stand in the middle of the garden and there's no protection close to the walls there is obviously a big difference um that's why we've planted quite a lot of Hedges but they haven't grown yet and we've got a bit of shelter belts and things you know we do need that protection but again we have this extraordinary long daylight hour so although you know people have got their sweet peas blooming in May and we don't have that because we've only just started our growing season come June July when we've got you know 12 plus hours of daylight suddenly all of our plants you know just keep growing in the night basically right Jun June it's 22 hours of daylight yeah so you know that's extraordinary so that's so our our growing season is really quite short and quite intense but we can still be picking sweet peas and and flowers in October because we haven't had a frost yet when everyone else's is over in July August that's right so you know there is pluses and minuses [Music] I mean I feel like I could spend weeks here we'd love to have you yeah bring your gardening gloves yes well I might have to learn a few things from from Zara that's for sure come down okay so these are all our cut flower beds and as you can see their color themes so we have two on this side of the garden and two on the other side this they've all got one rather romantic name so this is icy Glenn and we've got Scotch Thistle and glowing Heather and golden Pete so but this is sort of whites yellows and greens with a sort of touch of lavender and these wonderful rows of sweet peas so I love sweet peas we grow a row in each of the cup flower beds okay um because I love the scent so much you know we are trying to be more sustainable in our garden in the same way everyone's trying to be more sustainable so we grow these flowers we try to sell them to local florist we make up bunches weekly here and we sell Bunches of flowers here so really as I'm walking around this Garden this amazing Garden you're using all parts of it not just for food production and in the cafe but as you just mentioned for your guests for the weddings for um you know people to come in and have and make bouquet and and this is a pretty important this is a pretty important part of the garden because it's lavender and lavender goes into our gin we distill essential oils from the lavender it goes into our bath and body products and it's um and so it's not just us that enjoys it you can see the enjoy it as well and the noise from the bees when as the lavender has just slightly gone over as well but you know a week ago it was just humming with bees and we we need our pollinators we we've got five hives the other side of the wall there but we make our own honey you know so everything in the garden is trying to be as natural as sustainable and as beautiful as we can Poss make it but can I just ask you both this question because this is a big project walking around you make it sound like it's so simple like you knew to put the lavender and then it was going to go into products in the shop and it's it's I'm but we were incredibly naive I have to say and thank goodness we were cuz we would never have done it if I knew now 10 years on what I knew at the start I would have gone you must be joking I don't think it was brilliant so I think it was stupidity right and sometimes that works and clearly it has it absolutely has but you mentioned something Ang about this Gordon Castle brand and that's what I want to touch on right now because I think it's really fascinating when I look at historic houses and how they've really evolved if you think about it after the second world war we started to open up our houses to the public right and that was just bringing in visitor income and then you started to look at what other historic houses were doing oh we're going to have weddings now right so the law changed and we could have have weddings there and then we're starting to have events or we're having festivals but you guys have really over and above and beyond that in creating a brand so that if I'm coming to visit Gordon Castle I'm not just going to walk away with the tea towel right the standard tea towel I can walk away with the scent that I've just been you know whether that's a beautiful scented candle or whether that's um you know some aroma therapy oils or whether that's you know flowers or thein the Gin so so so the the whole idea is that all these Estates wonderful they are though they are and lucky they we are to to look after them they're money pits they are money pits to to a certain extent but also they're finite so you can only have so many visitors you can only sell so many potatoes or fishing on the river or that's right or or bedrooms in Holiday Cottage whereas the whole idea of the products is that we use a small amount and you can scale it up and it becomes infinite and global domination follows shortly thereafter yeah I well 100 100% I think you're definitely on to something here and I think global domination will absolutely happen no doubt as I explored head Gardener Ed bam was hard at work but I couldn't help interrupt and ask about the changes to the Garden Ed you've been here since the beginning the vision of this yes and you've really seen this come to life hav't you yeah I mean to be honest there was very little here when I started so some of the ground workor had been done but very little planting there was it was really a building site right so it's turned from a building site into what feels like a fairly mature garden yes um I think at the beginning of the project we were thinking maybe it was going to take us 5 years to complete the Garden and we're almost 10 years in now and we're not we're not finished yet but that's mainly because we're such a small team so we have just four gardeners right we do all the work ourselves so everything from obviously all the planting but all the building work as well all the construction every brick that's in the garden we've laid every Archway every post and rail so it's it's slow going but it means we really know the garden we can make tweaks to the design as we go along yes so it's it's kind of grown kind of more organically than we expected but and this is hands on a lot it's garden and that's the the most challenging part of my job is getting the balance between the garden looking great for 10,000 or so visitors and also getting a huge amount of produce out the garden right um and that's really really difficult you know yes um you're creating the produce you are having to really get your hands dirty and there's so many different elements but how fun it's fantastic you know that saying that projects keep you young yeah yeah I'm not quite sure about that but it certainly keeps me engaged and excited you know oh thank you so much for because you're very busy so you took out for me and I really really appreciate that that's fine thank you very [Music] much after walking all 8 Acres of the garden time for some retail therapy with Zara Zara I do love a good shop but I think I think yours is extra special isn't it well I think ours is a little bit more unique in that we've got so many of our very own products we're not just buying in I mean obviously we do have a few of those but most of our products do come with something emanating from the garden or something from the estate so we do use our estate Tweed on some of the notebooks and that kind of thing but especially our Bath and Body range that you can see here which is all fragrance with natural essential oils um which are taken from the garden so where do where do I start well why don't you try some of our hand cream so this is um got some of the lavender that you saw earlier why don't you try a little bit of that it's I've put some on my hands um and it does smell oh and I think you can tell it does have a sort of that natural smell from it it doesn't smell like a sort of natural you know on natural Francy oh my goodness no it doesn't it smells fresh yeah so that's the flower garden range which is quite girly it's quite floral and then we have a more sort of unisex range which is um the orangery which is sort of more citrusy and sort of um orangey and lime so you could probably smell one of these candles so you get that smell from the orangery candle in that but what is just absolutely astonishing is that it's not just for your shop here this is a bigger scale you're going hotels you're doing Airbnb you know this has been really fascinating because this has been a steep learning curve for us as well you know neither Angus or I were in The Branding business or you know what type of lid did you want or what type of um our logo obviously came from actually an old prayer book so this G came we found on an old prayer book and then by Fate we were looking for some stone for the children's play area and we went to the rubble of stone that angus's grandfather had knocked down and we found this wonderful G engraved on a piece of stone so we thought well it's fake that that's going to be our logo so it's a beautiful logo logo thank you Zara this is incredible and love showing you around the garden so sure I'll be Stu up come back again soon I [Music] will the river spay weaves its way through the Gordon Castle estate boasting beautiful wooded landscape and some of the best salmon fishing in the world so obviously I couldn't help but get the waiters on now now you told me to wear glasses so I'm wearing just like normal glasses we're going to go fishing with a with a fly and on the end of the fly two very sharp hooks which is why you're wearing a hat and glasses because people who haven't done it a lot especially when there's a bit of a wind can end up with a fly in the eye so we don't want to avoid that so if you put those on and I'll get some boots ready for you oh my gosh so fun now you need to get these on okay wow this is kit it's like I'm going on the moon and this is the river spay right this is the river spay this is famous isn't it for it's a famous and B um weird lucky enough to be on quite a famous bit of it that's fantastic oh okay you put it on like a CO like okay all right thanks Angus it's fantastic do it up the front yep you're all set to go I think right come on then Julie let's going and find Lewis and he's going to um show you the roots this is Julie Lewis this is Lewis one of our nice to meet you oh my goodness so I've only done this once before yep and that was I was taught to do like tick tock tick tuck no we'll get you tght the right way okay there we are okay so this is the beat here right this is our beat yes this is one of my main pools called alt dog named after the burn that comes down there um alt do translates in garlic is Red Burn guess where they got the red from love that there you go that's yeah we're going to have a quick go down here [Music] okay so that is not a tiktock is that no no no so this is a bit longer Rod than what you'd have probably used before this is 15 ft in total okay so you'd have probably been taught your overhead cast which you say Tik Tok cast here was developed on this River because of the high Banks and the trees as you can see on the other side to allow us to be able to fish alongside here without getting caught up which just gets boring when you're stuck in the B every car see so that's the reason so with a spay cast we lift up we twist round nice and slowly line drops into the water here and then we flicker forward okay at no point do it a couple more times for me and then what happens wait we sit back and let the river do its thing it's fishing okay as she comes through off the side of that foam line you can see it on the water there that's kind of where we're looking for fish ah where the foam line is okay so would you like to have a go okay right hand on the top left hand down below the Reel there uhhuh uh-huh okay start with the rod pointing down towards the water a bit uhhuh and then I go up nice gentle lift up uh-huh swinging round to the right and a push forward okay oh yeah a little bit quicker on the on the twist okay okay let's just fix that so I just got to like do it yes okay go down not be afraid okay go up okay nearly nearly I just want to get one right that's all I want to do is try to get one [Music] right okay but what happened there I felt that that was good so that was all right just final delivery you're cutting under a little bit we need to come over okay yeah it's really hard it's bit like golf how it looks nice and easy terrible I'm terrible at gol how many years have you been doing this leis uh so I've been here now for 9 years right um yeah but you just I grew up fishing on the river yeah every fish is different steady we just got that one on there I'm fired I'm fired everybody Louis is going to fire me oh my God oh I mean do you have to have like good hand eye coordination does this mean I don't have good hand eye coordination no no no not at all no it's just I think it does it's I mean I'm okay at tennis it you know it's a bit like riding a bike you fall off a few times then all of a sudden away you go that's okay I'm going to try one more time L and then I just might have to throw on the towel okay tell me when yeah cost and [Music] na oh that was better that was better what happened there so there we're a little bit more in the air but almost going towards your Tik Tok casting that we were doing but okay FES in the water we've got a good chance okay the fly is in the water yeah that okay take that that I'm going to take that and get a fish definitely right [Music] now what a simply aming amazing visit Gordon Castle is an absolute Gem and I hope to return in the future [Music]

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Length: 38min 52sec (2332 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2024