Many of us have somehow romanticized life in castles with all the feasts, beautiful outfits, lords, and ladies. But medieval life was as far from the glamorous picture in your head as possible! Narrow passageways, smoky fires, gloomy and dark rooms - that's what would have greeted you upon setting foot in a castle in medieval times. And that’s just the good part... Castles were ice cold inside. They were huge stone boxes with freezing cold dark rooms inside. Although castles looked inaccessible from the outside, they were literally one large and mostly open space inside. There was no privacy in castles! And you couldn't find solitude even in the toilets. At any time, you could have a neighbor or two engaged in the same delicate business. 

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