coch, however, was a fairytale castle. round. and sort of sticking up out the trees. this is what it looked like from the front:

this is a crappy photograph of a sort of overhead view:

the insides of both castles were designed by the same bloke (who's name i can't remember). he was into elaborte ceilings. the drawing room in castle coch - a sort of garden of eden thingy - was my favourite. but mostly there was a lot of stairs at castle coch:

and the world's smallest toilet. a tiny internal room with no windows. i took no photos. that seemed obsessive.

castle coch was in the village tongwylnas . that's a totally fun welsh name to say.