Perthshire Trip
It's been a while since I last posted on the blog....deadlines on the course have meant we haven't really been up to much over the last few months and also I haven't really had time to whack things up on here.
However now the course is over I finally have time to get the blog updated - only a few posts but here goes.....
In April Glenn and I headed to Perthshire for a couple nights as we'd not explored round the area and we'd spotted a deal on Groupon. So on Thursday 11 we left Edinburgh and drove to Perth, a fairly big town at the foot of the highlands. After having a browse round we drive on to the small, quaint villages of Dunkeld & Birnam that are on the banks of the River Tay and separated by the Dunkeld bridge. Dunkeld was a bit old-fashioned but it was lovely and peaceful. We had a walk round the cathedral before travelling to our hotel - the Moness Resort in Aberfeldy.
The next day we stopped off at Pitlochry and had a walk round the town and over the dam before heading on to Aviemore, a town at the foot of the Caingorms and the furthest north we ventured. On the way we stopped at the 'Queen's View' (named after Queen Victoria who visited in 1866) which was a great photo stop looking out over Lake Tummel. Aviemore was like a ski resort minus the snow and made up of a lot of old Scottish people! I can imagine it would be a buzzing place to stay during the snow season, however we didn't stay long and instead headed to the forest of Rothiemurchus for a lovely 1.5 hour walk around Loch an Eilein. We then drove back to Aberfeldy and had a nice meal in the hotel with a complimentary bottle of wine that was included in the Groupon deal 🙂
For the last day of our trip we started off with a 1.5 hour walk round the 'Birks of Aberfeldy' - made famous by Robert Burns in his same titled poem. The walk was lovely, taking us through a woodland and giving great views of the Falls of Moness. As we drove to Kenmore the sun came out and we had a lovely walk up to a viewpoint looking out over the town and the River Tay. We then drove along to see the Fortingall Yew - believed to be the oldest tree in UK and Europe (http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6UFC5F) before heading back to Edinburgh via Stirling.
Although the landscape over the trip wasn't as scenic as you'd find further up in the Highlands or on the West coast, we had a lovely trip and feel we can tick Perthshire off our list!
