Aviemore, United Kingdom Travel Blogs

Snow, Lochs & the Black Dog
May 5, 2008 (19 photos)

- Jeff tried porridge made with whiskey & cream.  Yum! - Sherry had her best fruit salad ever - black dog with eye contact issues & devourer of sticks @ Loch Morlich - half the day at Cairngorm Mountain, watching skiers, snow-boarder ...

The Bonnie Highlands
Aug 8, 2008

Yesterday we headed up to the Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands. Stopped off at St Andrews to see the famous golf course-didn't get to see much as it pelted down with rain! So just shivered in the rain watching all the people attempting to play golf in ...

Aviemore
Aug 9, 2008 (17 photos)

... are in the highlands and looking for Nessie talk soon Hugs all Stewart and Nancy G'day All, Back on track we are in Aviemore another beautiful highlands village, on the way to it we stopped off at Newtonmore a village that has the oldest collection of ...

Day six Comrie to Slochd (North of Aviemore)
Aug 14, 2008

... got into the habit of wearing. Dramochter wasn't the climb I had expected and I made good time. The last leg through Kingussie, Aviemore and Carrbridge went well until I joined the Sustrans route 7 which I had been told would lead me right to the hostel. I ...

Transfer day to Aviemore - District Conference
Sep 12, 2008 (3 photos)

Today we left Dundee for Aviemore where the Rotary 1010 district conference was going to be held.  I was fortunate enough to ride up to Aviemore in a Scottish RV.  We had a nice drive up the A9.  It is beautiful country.  Large hills ...

Mount Cook
Mar 27, 2008 (4 photos)

Destination 225: km119'260 In Dunedin, San Francisco von Neuseeland, ohabe ich leider nur einen Tag eingelegt, wo ich u.a. die steilste Strasse der Welt besucht und auch befahren habe (nur Sackgasse!). In der Tat ein Bauwerk dass mich noch nervoes ...

A 30th birthday weekend in Aviemore
Apr 19, 2008 (10 photos)

... - see my travel links on my Starter Kit for Scotland (link on the front page) - just don't miss your bus! Aviemore is so pretty, with the snow covered Cairngorm mountains as a backdrop, creating wonderful scenery. It's also a place you can go ...

Bus stop.
May 7, 2007

Bus stop.

Aviemore
Sep 25, 2007

... our cruise, and decided to just start driving to Edinburgh, and along the way we stopped at a pretty cool mountain town called Aviemore. We wound up having breakfast, shopping, and doing some walking. It was a cool little place, kind of reminded me of N. ...

A good leaving do and hello Scotland
Dec 20, 2006 (29 photos)

Hello, well i have arrived in Aviemore (Scotland) after a long Nine hour drive through thick fog and icy roads in Scotland to back with my mum, dad and Bacardi the evil cat. Thank you to all that made my leaving do it was amazing to see so many ...

Liz and lee visit and darren heads back to Bham
Jan 7, 2007 (30 photos)

An interesting week had by all with Darren still here and the arrival of Liz and lee. They eventually got here on Tuesday evening, so we all ventured out for a beer to welcome them to Scotland, also ease lee's nerves due to Liz's driving. We have done ...

Last entry before i go
Jan 18, 2007 (9 photos)

Well what can i say about today.....amazing i think the best way of putting it, i woke up this morning to a blanket of snow and i knew the mountain would be a powder day, so i got the first lift up and was the first down one of the runs, the only problem ...

off back to canada
Jul 26, 2007 (19 photos)

Thank you to all who made the effort to catch up with me, a busy two weeks very tired but worth it, Congratulations to Carlyn and Dave on the wedding day, a very special day and it was nice to be part of it. Working for frank was fun, shame there was ...

Great day on the slopes
Dec 23, 2006 (19 photos)

What a day today, Clear, crisp and sunny skys on the ski slopes as you will notice on the pictures, apparently the temperature here is going to get down to -12 so lets hope for lots of snow, the mountain needs it i can tell you, i am Ski teaching ...

End of an Era!!
Feb 12, 2008 (1 photos)

Hey So landed back in Scotland on Sunday morning and met the parents and of back to Aviemore, I leave Scotland Saturday morning very early, heading for Birmingham, darrens place to be exact. Be great to catch up with people and hear what has been ...

Culrain to Aviemore
Jul 26, 2006

... Battlefield; the Clava Cairns, 3 Bronze Age cairns; Fort George; Castle Stuart and Dalcross Castle. We stay the night in Aviemore, in the middle of the Cairngorm Mountains in Cairngorms National Park. Tim typed a long entry for today and I accidentally ...

Drunk
Jun 17, 1998

This entry is one very near my heart. Here, in this highland town, I got drunk. Not just drunk, but drunk with some cool ass new friends. While staying in the local hotel, I met a couple of locals. I ended up watching a Scotland game during the world ...

Aviemore
Jul 9, 2004 (1 photos)

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Day 12 - 80 miles in the BMW
Sep 30, 2009

... via Loch Ness for a few pictures, first stopping at Foyers Falls and then a few places along Loch Ness south shore. I arrived at Aviemore at around 15:00 and checked in to the Bunk House, got my room sorted and then went for a walk around the ...

Glorious snow atop the mountains
Apr 21, 2008

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Road to Inverness and Aviemore
Aug 25, 2006 (4 photos)

... for a while and the truth is it's impressive, and it has a great sight of the lake. We continue our journey towards Aviemore, the town where we will sleep tonight. The village itself is a ski resort but it's august and there's no snow around here at ...

The Walk
Feb 17, 2006 (59 photos)

We, Laurence and I and our friends Chris and Garry set off from Laurence's not long after 6:30, arriving at the drop-off point near Braemar at roughly 9 am. We then set off on the walk, firstly along flat ground and then higher up into the pass, where we ...

En direction d'Aviemore
Aug 5, 2004

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Can't Stop the Rain
Jun 22, 2008 (5 photos)

I can't say I slept fitfully as I was too hot sleeping under the down comforter the B & B provided and, as a result, I had this vivid dream in which I was good friends with Gwyneth Paltrow.  In the dream she was helping me get ready for ...

Cairngorms
Mar 1, 2009

After the trials of Ben Nevis we had a day off in transit over to Aviemore. Over a 'full Scottish' breakfast the dynamics of the group are clear. Simon is dad, Ian, Ant and Jegs are the older kids and me and Darren are the toddlers. I can't quite figure ...

Edinburgh to Aviemore
May 17, 2009 (10 photos)

... the area near Balmoral estate. We managed to catch a glimpse of Balmoral castle but only a glimpse as we drove past. It seemed strange in Aviemore to see lots of rabbits around the hotel grounds and with very little fear of anyone who was about.

Crathie Church, Whiskey Distillery and Sheep farm
Sep 18, 1999 (7 photos)

... a bachelor party. We went back to the hotel, had dinner while intoxicated again, freshened up and went out on the town walking in Aviemore. I cannot remember the names of the pubs/bars we went to but the 1st one sat back from the road and had a mixture ...

A BIG Monday Night in the Highlands
Jun 22, 2009 (46 photos)

... ! And it wasn't a 7/11 either, this was a full blown scottish food stop in the highlands! Weird! Anyway we crusied onto Aviemore and i don't think this sleepy little town was quite ready for the contiki group of 50 to land on their door step! Monday night ...

Day 13 - 4 miles in the BMW / 16 miles on foot
Oct 1, 2009

Today I headed of to Loch Einlich with Jade from the hostel. She was over from Canada and had asked if she could come along with me. I had first planned to go off on my bike but as it was fairly expensive to hire a bike we decided to go off on foot. ...

Forever more in Aviemore
Jun 21, 2008 (9 photos)

... I took a taxi from the station to our lodging, the Rowan Tree Country Hotel, an absolutely charming little place about 3 miles outside of Aviemore.  Two thumbs WAY WAY up on this place.  Once we'd settled in, I went for a short stroll down to the ...