Dreich morning ..... travelling to Fife.
11th
August 2016 (Thursday)
.... 08.30 Hmmmmm .... we have a
dreich morning; low cloud and rain ....
a good enough day for travelling, not too bright! I think we’ll go down via the A90 in spite
of the road works; the scenic route won’t
be
very scenic this morning. The
weather should improve south of Aberdeen.
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| "Alice Joan" at Stracathro Transport Cafe |
21.30 The
journey down from Auchnagatt was wet for the first part .... until Stonehaven .... then dry(ish) from
there. I managed to poodle my way through
Aberdeen ‘nae bother’ because Anderson Drive was, by its standards, very quiet. When we got beyond Stonehaven we could see
that the top of the Cairn o’ Mount road was still under clouds even though we could
see most of the hill.
We
stopped at the Transport Cafe, at Stracathro for an ‘all day breakfast’, having
arrived just too early for lunch. “Alice
Joan”, one of Eddie Stobart’s vehicles was in the Car Park and ‘she’ was being
well photographed. The Transport Cafe food
is ‘basic’, and there’s always plenty of it.
‘M’ didn’t like the haggis
because it was hard.... having been kept warm since it was cooked; it was also the last piece of haggis in the
dish.
Our
next stop was at Tesco’s (Cupar) for milk and bread; this stop was quickly followed by another
.... this time at the ‘Fudge Doughnut’ factory, where we had coffee
and cake in
the cafe; and bought three FD’s. This was our last coffee stop of the day,
and we arrived at Ivy about 14.30.
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| 'M'... looking cold on the beach |
It
didn’t take long to get ‘Sooper Buggy’ unpacked, and ‘moored up’ round the
corner. By now I was in a state of
excitement, being so close to ‘my’ beach, so we, ‘M’ and I, had to go down
there to check it out. ‘M’ thought it
was cold; of course I told her that it
couldn’t be because it was still summer!
I switched the central heating ‘on’ when we got back to Ivy .... and had
a cuppa.
Jimmy
has got himself a new addition to his i-pad;
a Flash Drive with a load of photos
on it. He is pleased with this,
because he can browse all the pictures we took
when out and about on the bike,
and on foot, for the past 8 years. We had
a cuppa ..... and ate the aforementioned FD’s at this time.
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| The beach this afternoon |
Tomorrows
weather is forecast to be ‘cloudy but mostly dry’ .... perfect summer
weather.
Photographs
: Top – “Alice Joan”, Middle – ‘M’, managing to look cauld on a lovely warm
Scottish summer’s day, and Bottom – the beach this afternoon.
