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Today I decided to go visit
Balmoral and then head over the hills to Tomintoul and then across to
Grantown to visit the Speyside Heather Centre. It turned out to be quite a
journey :-)
This was heading through Glenshee going
towards Braemar
A few pictures of Braemar which I confess is a
pretty village but I didn't get a good impression of the people... a cold
day and a cold welcome I would say.
This was the run down to Barmoral which has
lovely scenery and I then arrived at the gates of Balmoral Castle
These are all pictures as I climbed up the
road heading towards Tomintoul and they say this road is always the first
to be blocked by snow.
And so you can see we had some real snow on
this part of the journey but even so the views were excellent until the
snow came down a lot heavier and it was time to concentrate on the
driving!
Guide Book to Tomintoul (pdf)
I did in fact make it to the Speyside Heather
Centre and it was well worth the visit. I did partake in a nice hot
cup of coffee and a delicious slice of Clootie Dumpling... and they have a
poster up showing you 21 different ways to eat clootie dumpling :-) |
