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 :-)
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This was heading through Glenshee going
towards Braemar
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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.
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This was the run down to Barmoral which has
lovely scenery and I then arrived at the gates of Balmoral Castle
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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.
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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)
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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 :-) |