Beach, Castles and Beer

Catch up time with a few notes on how we’ve been spending our time here in bonnie Scotland.

Aberdeen:

We were invited to Aberdeen in March  to celebrate Kathryn’s 8th anniversary of her 21st birthday on the 21st. Rob, being the awesome guy that he is, met up with us after work on Friday and gave us a lift. Saturday we drove out to Dunnottar Castle and went exploring. Due to some bad planning Simon and I had left our camera at home so we wandered around enjoying the sights while Kathryn and Rob played with a new macro zoom (?) Rob had given Kathryn as part of her birthday present. Also exploring the castle that day were a group of French High School students with questionaires. I’m not ashamed to say I do not know the words to the French or the Scottish national  anthems, they were a bit confused when I tried to explain that I did know the Australian anthem lyrics.

Once done in the castle we walked down the many steps and over some rocks to a beach. Beach might not be the right word though. Ball pit of smoothly polished stones? The sun came out for a while. We compared rock colours, skimmed stones and waved at the seals.

Dunnottar Castle.

Additional Note: also discovered a new whisky to enjoy – Balvenie.

Sunday we went to a Balmedie beach which has sand, more sand and sand dunes. Much fun. Again incredibly annoyed we didn’t have our camera, especially when we found the old world war II bunker which has been slowly swallowed up by the dunes.

(I’ve found some pictures on Flickr of the bunker if you want a peek: 1, 2)

Awesome weekend, good friends, great weather and another corner of Scotland appreciated.

Additional note: There is an amusement park on the boardwalk! This will be explored at a later date.