I whinge about negative press all the time, so it’s only fair I praise the positive!

The BBC, my beloved BBC, reported the other day about a Second Life™ building. Yes, can you believe it? A mainstream news story about Second Life that doesn’t involve divorce, nyphomania or hermit nerd in his parent’s basement. This article tells us about the rather interesting project.

A castle in the highlands of Scotland, Invergarry, was burnt to ruins by Oliver Cromwell’s men in 1654. Though rebuilt, it was then destroyed again shortly after. This castle has now been rebuilt in Second Life by the myglengarry.com conservation trust, but what is particularly interesting about this project is the fact that two versions of the castle have been produced. One is a Second Life replica of how the real castle looks today in its ruins and also a version of what the castle would have looked at before its second destruction in 1740. This is exactly the type of cool thing that makes me love Second Life so much. Where else can you just replicate, not only a castle, but also go back in time and replicate that castle as it was?

They used the original plans to create the castle in Second Life and having had a little look I can ohoenstly say that I believe both these builds are amongst the most beautiful castles in Second Life.

The Second Life Replica of the Invergerry Ruins

As I said, wonderful castle, beautiful Second Life architecture and very true to life replicas, as the photos displayed in world show. The builder, by the way, is Rizla Laval!

Want to go look? Do you, do you, do you? Click here to teleport.