Lovely morrrrrrrrrrning ....

4th October 2021 (Monday)    08.00 .... it’s a lovely morning,  though there is


a fair amount of cloud around.   We had a red sky last night so we should have a ‘nae bad’ day.    The bikes have been fully charged and I think the ‘plan’ is to bike to Maud:  the former Buchan railway line (Aberdeen to Fraserburgh etc) is now a cycle route/walkway.    It looks like being a good day for biking.... not nearly as windy as it was yesterday.



13.00   Jackie and I biked to Maud via the road outbound, then onto the cycleway from Maud to Auchnagatt, then onto the road again for the last two miles.... a total distance of 12.5 miles.     Biking the Buchan cycleway had me thinking of the chance that was missed when the East Neuk line closed:  that would have been an ideal , safe, cycle/walkway... the landowners could have had Cafe’s along the way.   Instead of that what do we have,.... back roads signposted as Cycle Routes;  and they aren’t as safe as an ex – railway line is.

Iain and Jackie at Gardenstown harbour.

19.30    We’ve had a lovely day... it has been breezy but nothing like it was yesterday.... so we decided to go to Gardenstown in the afternoon;  it’s an interesting place, with a fishing history.... and still has a number of creel boats in the harbour.     It has been warm .... 17C at one time .... sheltered from the brisk breeze.  

The Aberdeenshire roads, we have travelled on so far, are seriously lacking in decent pot-holes.    On the bike I never had to avoid one .... and I only noticed two from the car, and they were pathetic looking things.   There’s no doubt Fife  must be near the top of the pot-hole league;   I then started to wonder what would happen if ‘panic buyer’  started buying canisters of yellow spray paint:  would the Fife pot-hole mending programme have to be put on ‘hold’?   Anyway we’ve had a very enjoyable day out.... in spite of the lack of pot-holes.

I see that Brexit is in Britain’s ‘long term interest’.... it certainly has been a disaster up

Gardenstown 'New' Kirk.

to now.    It will all sort itself out when ask we rejoin the EU in 20 years or so;  if they let us.

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