Beach at Hopeman

This week I've had visitors : seven of us who were at university together met up for a four day reunion here in the Highlands.

Now based in Germany, London, Lancaster, Edinburgh, Elgin, the Black Isle and Inverness, we met up in Edinburgh four years ago to mark forty years since we had started out in the German and French departments at Edinburgh University. It was such a success that we repeated the exercise two years ago with a trip to Germany to mark forty years on from when we set off for our year abroad. This year we were celebrating forty years since our graduation!

It's been a lovely week catching up with each other. Today we headed east to Elgin, walked along the beach at Lossiemouth and then visited this lovely little beach at Hopeman on the Moray coast.