Wednesday 28 June 2017

Wednesday 28.6.2017

A head-clearing walk on a cool, breezy day with the sun in and out of the clouds and grass as high as the proverbial elephant`s eye.


And the head did need a bit of clearing after a fortnight or so of gallivanting and yomping and (over)eating, not to mention a serious case of whiskynapping.....

So this year`s birthday mountain was Hill of Fare (https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/aberdeenshire/hill-of-fare.shtml) but first a morning coffee and delicious raspberry tart at Platform22 in Torphins.
The walk itself was a moorland tramp, affording excellent views......






and back down through the forest








Two days later it was a different kind of tramping, this time round the streets of Aberdeen, with a lunch break in the remarkably peaceful cemetery in the centre of town, eye-balling a particularly persistent gull who would have grabbed my sandwich given half a chance.
Aberdeen`s gulls are known for their ferocity....not to mention their size.....

"Aberdeen North's SNP MP Kirsty Blackman said the birds were terrorising her constituents. "Look up internet memes on seagulls - the Aberdeen seagull is the size of a large dog. It is absolutely ginormous and it regularly gets mentioned," she said." (The Week Feb 8th 2017)

And then we were off on a week of activities with a visiting Cotswold Contingent: a walk round a misty moisty Bennachie Forest,












a birthday tea, Stone Circles at every turn







and a rather wonderful visit to a local distillery -http://www.glengarioch.com/

It was all going so well until the C.C. tried to get on a train to take their booty home and it was confiscated! This however is still a story in progress....more to follow.



But the week was not done: at the end of a Saturday learning all about the secrets and intricacies of Letterpress there was a walk to be had along the splendid River Don on a summer evening:

And back to today where we were all in clover......







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