Last night's spot was popular, even after dark another van appeared. Earplugs were in order though, the nearby river Tummel was flowing fast, and the noise of it roaring and bouncing over the rocks was deafening. This morning, all changed, the sun was out. How long had we waited, no rain, no wind, just nice settled weather, thank god, for that, today was going to be a good day for us and the walkers we'd seen looking deflated yesterday. Not wanting to drive back into the bad weather, we decided to stay in the east and travel up through the Cairngorm national park. Last time we took the road up, it was wet, so it was lovely today to be rewarded with stunning views of the mountains.
Tonight's stop between Castle Roy and the Kirk at Nethy Bridge, known as the forest village in the national park.
For anyone passing this way, the tearoom serves a very nice cheese scone. All these treats most days are probably not good for our waistlines, but oh boy, they taste good.
Life in Marge has been more pleasant these last couple of days, it seems unimaginable now that we have been held prisoner in her because of the appalling weather, those days of wind and heavy rain seems like a bad dream, fingers crossed we won't have to experience it anymore this trip. Tomorrow we are heading up to the coast, there's a small campsite we wish to return to for a special reason, and that's to see the Moray Firth dolphins. All quiet at the castle tonight, we think it'll be just us here, but who knows, we are only a few miles from the A9 heading towards Inverness, where the NC50O drive officially begins, we've driven this route twice in both directions and don't feel we need to again. After spending time at Fortrose we will slowly head back south. That's one of the plus points of being retired, you can just bumble about, doing what you want to do, when you want to do it, and how you want to do it. Sounds good to us.
A few more mushrooms NOT to eat.































































