A Long Walk at Leith Hall

After a leisurely coffee it was time to go for a walk. Cosmo rejected our overtures today so we were able to go a bit further afield in the car. We settled on Leith Hall. The Hall itself was closed but there are extensive walks around the gardens.

We started in the walled garden which is looking very stark at the moment, there is very little sign of the arrival of spring in this area. We then passed on to one of the signed walks which took us past waterlogged fields and over a railway line. Much to my surprise we even heard a train, but were not close enough to see the train as it passed. I speculated this might be the one train which passes at very infrequent intervals.

Returning to the car I hoped the car heater might dry my feet. The shoes I was wearing were not really appropriate for the conditions of even the marked trail.

On the way back to Aberdeen we stopped at Touched by Scotland (Gadies Restaurant) for a coffee. There is now a large US flag on the wall, and a number of the staff certainly had US accents.(I took them to be the owners). There is a small village in Italy where a number of the residents have Scottish names. These are supposed to be the descendants of soldiers of a Scottish regiment which became marooned in the course of some long forgotten war. Perhaps this American family may have been marooned in Aberdeenshire following the collapse of the oil price.