Chalamain Gap

Davie has had a good week; he got two important letters. One was his official offer of a place to study Biomedical Science at University of the West of Scotland. The other was his Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award badge with a letter congratulating him and informing him that he will be invited to next year's Gold Award Ceremony at Holyrood Palace. I am extremely proud of him.

We are at Boat of Garten visiting Alison and Hugh, and have just got back from a really good 18.3 km walk. We walked from Coylumbridge through lovely woodland and over the Cairngorm Club footbridge towards the Lairig Ghru. We turned sharply to climb upwards and through the Chalamain Gap. We had great views of all the mountains including Cairn Gorm and although we had one or two showers the weather was mostly dry and even sunny at times. Finally we followed the river into the very pretty Queen's Forest and down to the Glenmore Visitor Centre. We will deserve our dinner at Anderson's Restaurant this evening!