"The European Family Feel"

But you do live in castles, don't you?

My mum actually has a castle in her back garden.

Ok, so it's a ruin... it barely has the remains of three walls, but it has history.

King Edward I of England (yeah, the guy who fought Mel Gibson in Braveheart) stayed there when he captured the Stone of Scone.

Yes, for an Englishman's home is his Castle.
A Welshman's home belongs to an Englishman - until it gets burned down.

PS, GG, considering the exchange rate and relative strengths, dollars are play money at the moment. Though to be fair, given the current economic climate, if you're serious you pay in gold.

I'll just bring lots of them then

That sounds very cool, but the kind I'd like to visit would be like the big ones, with lots of walls and towers and a moat, and a banqueting hall, and a dungeon, and things like that - it doesn't matter if they're ruins, just as long as they're big enough to see what they were