We travelled to Ballater, on the way we visited The Gleneagdles Hotel in Perthshire, home of the famous golf course. Further on we popped into visit Stanley Mills on the banks of the River Tay. We also stopped along the way to take a few photos of castles for my Castles Album

Beautiful day, started our walk at the Common in Aboyne, we headed toward the River Dee and walked along the river bank before heading into the woods.
We climbed the hills behind Aboyne to do a circular walk behind aboyne over the countryside then back into the village

To-day is my birthday, lovely cards and presents, goody goody.
Alan organised the day. We started by climbing Craigendarroch Hill, on reaching the top, the views were fantastic, you could still see some snow in the tops of some of the Grampian Hills. When we came down off the hill we had lunch at a lovely little tearoom in Ballater.
After lunch we headed off to do the Seven Bridges Walk. Leaving Ballater we crossed the bridge over the River Dee then into the Pannanich Forest past Glenmuick House and out into the countryside of the Dee Valley, the views were beautiful.
We diverged from our route to visit the ruins of Knock Castle, a beautiful little Tower House standing at the top of a little hill and surrounded by trees.
We returned to our route and walked along the riverside to head for Dalhefour Wood which took us to the bridge at Polhollick Gauging Station,crossing the bridge we headed up toward the A93 then walked in the woodland beside the road and the river to head back to our hotel at Craigendarroch. To finnish off the day we had our evening meal in a supper little hotel by the bridge in Ballater , (possibly the Alexander Hotel), to food was great.
Perfect day.

A lovely day, we travelled to the Moray area of north of Scotland and visited the little village of Dufftown. Although only a small place it has seven whisky distilleries, The Glenfiddich Distillery appears to be the biggest, it has a lovely visitors centre, well worth a visit. While there we also visited Balvenie Castle which is just on the opposite side of the road from The Glenfiddich Distillery.
After walking round the village we drove to the little fishing town of Buckie and walked round the harbour,a very quiet place compared with how it looked when I spent holidays there when I was younger. We travelled on to Cullen & Portsoy then headed back to Aberdeen.

Day started off very windy with very changeable weather, sunshine one minute then very heavy rain the next.
Our day started with a walk on the beach at Aberdeen. We then started our journey to head home to East Kilbride.
On our way we stopped for short periods to take some photos of castles and did a short walk at Brechin.
Great break, but glad to be home.