Show castles uncomfortable homes castles may look romantic but they made uncomfortable homes notes a writer in the washington post instead of lamps or candles p pitch torches furnished light at n night ight smoke soon filled the room for the windows were mere slits in the wall piles of rushes were used as beds chicken bones and other food scraps were thrown on the floor dogs cleaned them up cas ties years old and more are standing in the louvre valley of france some had walls 35 feet thick built to withstand battering rams |