Setting Sun and Poppies

This is Bamburgh Castle and a beautiful field of poppies spread across the foreground. This location often has ties to Sir Lancelot and Joyous Garde as referenced by Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d'Arthur. Lancelot would have taken refuge here after his troubles with Arthur's Queen.

Bamburgh Castle

As with most of the locations I visited while in England I wanted to know the alternate, highly improbable histories more than the official ones. So here you go, Thomas Malory declared Bamburgh Castle on the eastern coast of the United Kingdom as the summer home, if you will, to be the location known as Joyous Guard of Sir Lancelot. Makes it a little more magical to imagine it to be a place inspiring myth and legend rather than just another of many spectacular castles dotting the U.K. Landscape.