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The Knowes Hotel Macduff

78 Market Street Macduff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB44 1LL, United Kingdom

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The Castle Trail

A travel blog entry by rwetmore

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Okay, not so much a trail, but we did find one castle that was still open: Delgatie Castle. Interesting place, lots of pictures. The story goes that the Hays family owned the castle from the 1300's. It was eventually bought by the Duff family and eventually fell into disrepair. A Hays family member pulled out his checkbook in 1950 and wrote a check …

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Nannying at Redhouse Farm

A travel blog entry by joandhughpalmer

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... for the BBC as a presenter on a rural Scotland show (like Landline in Aus) called Landward. The boys, Harry (who turned eight just before christmas), Seb (who is six), Jamie (who is 4 and at preschool) and Robbie (who is two) are great little kids. The family lives in a beautiful old farm house and they are currently renovating the castle to move into!

Im working on average 2 days a week. Im ...

Aye Scotland where they be talkin like wee pirates

A travel blog entry by joandhughpalmer

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... and live in this beautiful old farm house. They have just bought all the cattle in for the winter where they will now be in sheds so that they will get fed - apparently the snow makes it difficult to eat! The poor sheep on the other hand get left out all winter.

We have tried to be good little tourists and do some little trips but Ill write about them individually!





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Hoosie

A travel blog entry by hazel.leslie

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... the A95 along the River Spey to our first port of call, Glenlivet Distillery for the tour and tasting. I am not a whiskey drinker and I still think it is yuk but I tried a tiny sip of one variety and must admit it left a nice taste in the mouth for quite a while. The drams we were given were quite generous but because we were driving, we kept to a sip or two with water. Because we were so close, we nipped down to Boat of Garten, childhood home of ...

Day three

A travel blog entry by carner1

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we woke up to more rain which finally cleared by lunch time The first stop was St Andrews golf course and museum hard to park as people every where thanks to the grad ceremony at the uni Left for Elgin and possibly visit some distilleries on the way unfortunately ran out of time perhaps tomorrow very tired to night early bed had a nice pub meal and a few beers mow definitely ready for ...