Well, we might as well be on a skiing holiday as an autumn trip to Scotland!!! Today has been SO cold, it rained non-stop all night and the roads today were very wet. All the fields are so wet that there is nowhere else for the water to go but to remain on the road in huge pools.
We drove in to Aberdeen, checked out the harbour, the beach, (all with the wipers going), then tried forthe Tourist Info office but unable firstly to find it then unable to get a park within cooee so continued on in the direction of Braemar. Lovely houses on the outskirts of Aberdeen, obviously a very wealthy community.
First stop was at Tesco to buy our daily melon & grape pack, then on to a pretty little town called Banchory. Many castles and stately homes along the way. From there we drove to Torphins, a small town where Toni & Roger lived way back then! Looked for somewhere to buy a Four'n'twenty but I think the baker has closed shop!!!
From there we drove to Balmoral - what a magnificent property it is. Can see why HM likes to spend 10 weeks there every year. George was able to test drive another gopher - I got to walk quicker than usual so win win all around! But it was difficult dodging the showers. At the end my shoes and pants were saturated, it was very cold and we couldn't wait to check in to a nice warm hotel.
So we drove on to Braemar, about 30 minutes, up & down 2 of the 3 or four streets in Braemar,
and decided on a small hotel tucked away in a back street. Yes, they had wifi in rooms, yes, we could have dinner there, yes, lovely people but having checked in & tried to connect wifi lo & behold, no go! Despite all ttempts to find a password, mine host was a good player out of luck and so we moved to Braemar Lodge where all our needs were met.
It's still raining and it's still cold!
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