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Day 3, July 4th |
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FIRST: Who are these people?!?! (Not the best of pix! Sorry.)
This is a perfect example of how truly WONDERFUL and fun it is to stay at a B&B. You actually meet and SOCIALIZE with the others staying there. In a Hotel, you have tons of people staying in the rooms around you. But, you never really “meet” them, and certainly don’t get to KNOW them. Staying at a B&B, however, you meet and spend a bit of time with the others lodging there. If you don’t particularly take a “shine” to them, you can still go your separate ways. However, if you find that they’re FUN and interesting to spend time with, you become friends and DO STUFF together!
That’s the case with Charles, Lorna, Ben & I. They were such friendly and interesting people that we soon came to feel like we were all part of a family … Anne’s FAMILY!
And, the FIVE of us ended up spending almost the entire weekend together.
Friday night we all went to the Tourist Center and joined 30 or 40 others, squeezing into several 4-wheel-drive Landrovers, to enjoy a chauffeured ride up the rugged dirt track leading to the top of Morrone.
(The Braemar Royal Highland games Marathon starts at the game field down in Braemar, and runners RUN up to the top of Morrone, then back to the game field. Personally, I prefer the LANDROVERS! Thank you very much!) |
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(2900 ft high), and the center of a unique nature area. “It has the most extensive and diverse example of a transition between woodland and juniper scrub in the UK.” The Morrone area includes: Bogs, Marshes, Fens, Heath, Scrub, Alpine and sub-alpine grassland, Broad-leaved deciduous woodland, Inland rocks, Sands, and Permanent snow and ice. Although we saw several DEER while traveling to the top, once there the only animal life present was COOLIE! Coolie is Anne’s faithful and incredibly friendly Border Collie! |
with the vast panorama of the Grampian Mountains as his backdrop. It was … SIGH, SWOON … WONDERFUL!
(Hey! It was wonderful even BESIDE
Equally wonderful: one of the Landrovers was I had a bit of water. Then, I had a wee tot!
(I’m not at ALL a fan of Scotch. But, it seems |
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Coolie Fan on the planet!
All children who meet Coolie
But, Ben is “Coolie’s Boy”
I took several pix o’ Ben and Kidz playing with Coolie at the top of Morrone. To see that page, |
DAY 3 EVENING OPTIONS (in order of trip occurrence):
VIEW MINI VIDZ from the Top of Morrone
(Not everyone can play them. If you’ve not tried before, TRY NOW!)
MORE Landrover Safari Pix
(Including an interesting explanation of the BRAEMAR MOUNTAIN RESCUE HUT
and Radio Tower at the top of Morrone!)
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