“I actually got stood up here one time,” I tell Tay Kim as I sip a drink at the long old bar inside Edinburgh Castle. Scottish flags dangle from the ceiling and year-round Christmas lights ...

Amanda said Myres Castle is incredibly well located — you can be in Edinburgh in 45 minutes ... The oldest part of the home is the dungeons, used today as the family's storerooms.

This portcullis is at Edinburgh Castle (above). A castle dungeon was a room used to hold prisoners, usually underground. St Andrews Castle has a famous dungeon which is shaped like a bottle.