After yesterday's epic hike (and resultant sore muscles) we set our sights on a bit of leisurely sightseeing with an outing to Aberdeen; a location we had never visited before on previous trips. I'm not sure what I expected but it was not the bustling, vibrant and surprisingly attractive city. Parking up at the huge Loch Street car park we started with a spot of shopping (and a comfort stop) at the Bon-Accord and St. Nicholas centres we headed for Union Street w...

Today we tackled our first hike of the trip. After reviewing a couple of possible climbs in the surrounding area we chose Mount Blair in lower Glen Shee and Glen Isla, and sitting midway between Pitlochry and Kirriemuir. For those who are unfamiliar with the grading of hills in Scotland a graham is a separate mountain over 2000 feet. Grahams are named after Fiona Torbet (nee Graham) who published a list of these peaks in the early 1990s. (Anything over 2,500 fee...

Our second day in Scotland began cloudy and damp and as the forecast for Blairgowrie was for more of the same we decided to head out to Dundee for the day. That way, if the weather turned foul we could find things to do indoors. So, after a leisurely breakfast of fortifying Scott's Porage Oats we got underway and hit the road. Our previous visit to the fouth largest city in Scotland, which sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, had been a wet, cold and wind...

Well, I'm here in Scotland at last, refreshed after a good night's sleep (although for some being awake and writing a blog at 4.30 am is probably not considered "good" in anyone's language), and ready to roll. The Flight: We disembarked the KLM City Hopper from Amsterdam to Glasgow right on schedule but the trip was not without its hiccups. The flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur was delayed by more than an hour; in fact when we arrived at the airport the inbound ...