Castle Hotel Huntly Aberdeenshire

I will probably regret typing that, but thought I should start out happy.

Not a soul on the road for the early morning departure. Wish traffic was like that all the time.
First time in BA's lounge. They are set up better (including free internet, and coke products) than the everybody else's lounge.

Okay, I know I've been boring. I'm sorry! Basically I've been trying to get used to the bits and pieces of university before embarking on significant journeys. Can't blame me for that :P There have been the odd trips to random castles etc but I have no interest in random small town castles, lived in the Isle of Man for WAY too long to be interes...

Looking forward to the over 14,000 mile trip and the 19 hours flying.

Left the nice sunny day in Aberdeen. Nice view back down on the city/north sea as well as the office / quarry / home.

Also got some pictures of St Andrews again. But then it clouded up.

Rothes is the little Scottish village where the Glen Grant Whiskey Distillery is located. It is part of the Speyside Whisky Trail, where the largest concentration of Scotch whisky distilleries is located in Scotland. This large valley is popular among distillers because this is where most of the barley is grown for the distillation process.
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Well, I thought I would miss it, but had to walk through a little rain to/from the taxi and from the gate to the plane. Don't you just love airports with outside stairs?

Plus it is always fun to watch the flight attendants clean up all that rain that gets into the cabin in their seat/work area.

Dunno if I mentioned that the left hand front brake on our car had seivzed on the first day so Matt clamped the brake line & was using the other brakes. This was proving to be an issue as the front brakes kept locking up & we weren't stopping.

We headed to Aberdeen to find somewhere to get a new brake calliper & had no luck - ...

So today is our wedding anniversary, so most of my thoughts were consumed by missing my husband horribly.
Anyway, we had breakfast at Ardno House and hit the road. Our destination was Dufftown in Speyside (whisky capital of Scotland) but we also stopped in Loch Ness. This is not somewhere I planned to go. I typically try to avoid tourist tra...

Playing in a scramble with a couple of co-workers. Statistically, we were the worse team. Reality - we played the worst.

Weather was interesting. It went from cool, to light rain (sprinkles), then to sunny and warm. Then out of nowhere, it was hailing. Definitely made for some interesting photos. The greens were white. All the ice made...

18th April to 22nd April - Kinloss (Scotland)

These five days we spent visiting our friends Anna & Simon (and their little baby boy Nathaniel) in northern Scotland. Not having seen them for a couple of years since their visit to NZ we had a lot to catch up on. After getting in from Egypt at 10pm the night before we set off for Scotla...

We woke up this morning, the sun was shining and we had no particular plans so the question was 'where shall we go?' Scotland is probably known for its castles about as much as it is for its mountains and lochs so we decided to head off to Drum Castle, one of the many which are in our area. When we arrived we discovered that they were having som...