The Cairngorms are a big swath of mountains and forests basically right next to Aberdeen, and all year this was at the top of my list of places I wanted to visit, but the nature of being in grad school meant I didn't find the time to go there until my final week in Aberdeen. So it goes! It was beautiful and totally worth it.
We did a circle, taking the train north to Inverness (another nearby place I finally got to for the first time) then down around the other side of the Cairngorms to Aviemore, and into the national park to stay in Glenmore. For the route back we went the other way, south to Perth and Dundee, then back up along the beautiful eastern coast – including a stop in Stonehaven for the Highland Games!
PHOTOS OF OUR TRIP INTO THE HIGHLANDS ARE HERE.
(Nope, sorry, still haven't learned how to embed that link so that it shows a cover image instead of just text...even though you'd think Google Photos and Google Blogger would play nicely together, no?)
