After driving around the outskirts of Aberdeen to find a camp site to no avail we stopped around 23 miles inland at a lovely site next to the river Dee. Didn't get back to Aberdeen as only staying one night so it's on the check list for another day. Apparantly this was the nearest campsite to the 'capital of the north' I think someone's missed a trick her on tourism. Still it did mean we saw another part of the country and had a lovely walk around 8 miles all round along a cycle track and then at the side of the river where we saw a very big salmon leap up out of the river. A fisherman was up to the top of his thighs in the middle of the river but he missed it. After 4 miles we arrived at a little village where they were serving tea and homemade cakes and scones in the village hall. The little old ladies that served us were making the most of walkers dropping by on a Sunday for their community funds so we went in and had tea in china cups and warm buttered scones - it was like a mirage in a desert.
We moved on the next day to Braemar in the heart of the Cairngorm mountains - I've been here before when skiing at Glenshee and it's a magical place. We saw a couple of red squirrels and some red deer as well as an abundance of heather, pine forests and moorland. We must have walked over 10 miles that day but it was such a lovely sunny day and the place is so beautiful. I could live here.
Sunday treat in Braemar outside the Fife Arms
Hope you can read this - Queen Victoria's outing with John Brown (Balmoral just down the road)
Giant ant nest - heaving with millions of the little creatures
We stayed a couple of nights and then moved down through the glen to Forfar just above Dundee
Sunday treat in Braemar outside the Fife Arms
Hope you can read this - Queen Victoria's outing with John Brown (Balmoral just down the road)
Giant ant nest - heaving with millions of the little creatures
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