Left Ballater ......

... this morning after a visit to a local butcher that makes gluten-free haggis, sausages, and black pudding, to stock up on supplies.

First stop was Balmoral to visit the Queen. Unforunately she wasn't in so no blip ops there.

We moved onto Braemar, a picturesque wee town on the edge of a beautiful wilderness often snow covered and inaccessible.

I took lots of blips of the area but thought this was worth a look at.

It's a Bristol Pegasus XViii engine from a Wellington Bomber which crashed due to poor weather conditions on high ground close to the town in January 1942.

Andy Brown was 15 years old when the plane, on a training flight from RAF Lossiemouth, crashed into a Cairngorm hillside. The plane lay undiscovered for 2 weeks until Mr Brown's great-uncle noticed it's tail sticking out of the snow in Glen Cluny and alerted the local constable. Together with Mr Brown and his father, who was a sergeant in the Home Guard, they discovered it was an RAF bomber, reported missing over the North Sea and the bodies of all eight crewmen on board were recovered from the site.

Fifty years later in 1999 Mr Brown led an expedition to recover the two engines from the site and this one was erected as a permanent memorial.

This year on the 70th anniversary of the tragedy Mr Brown, now aged 85, led the town's tribute to the brave men who lost their lives.