Plenty of storybook adventures have been written about castles.
Princesses in castles. Knights in castles. Kings in castles. Kings trying to get into other people’s castles.
There’s something about the structures that get our imaginations going, allowing us to forget the “grittier” details, such as:
- No real indoor plumbing
- A sorry lack of climate control
- Lots of stairs with no elevators.
And those were hardly their only shortcomings, only a few of the comfort-related ones. There were plenty more to be had, including those “kings trying to get into other people’s castles,” as mentioned above.