(picture from the Boat of Garten railway station)Boat of Garten: The village of Boat of Garten, (where we stayed for the week) is a gorgeous little place situated a few miles outside the town of Aviemore. We’ve stayed in BoG for the past few years now and I never tire of this small peaceful village. It’s the type of place where everyone is friendly, offers you a hello as you pass by and everyone know everyone. It has a forest next to it with lovely walks to pass time away in, and a railway line running through on which old Steam Trains run. The railways station itself is a very picturesque old fashioned place and nice to sit by to watch the trains running by.
(picture from the walks through Boat of Garten woods) Aviemore itself isn’t a very huge town, quite a large living area but the shops are basic to say the least and more designed towards the tourist or the winter sports/hiking variety of people who pass through. On every side you’re surrounded by mountain ranges, the beautiful Cairn on one side in the distance showing off their majestic beauty.
After a walk in the morning through the forest, we headed for Inverness, for an afternoon of shopping. Nothing much to report on that score, shopping is shopping, a much loved past time of mine, even more so on holiday because I’m a saver, I like to save my money and then buy myself things, rather than just buy buy buy constantly.
After shopping we went bowling. I like the bowling alley they have in Inverness, though it’s not everyone kind of place. They all claim the alley’s are smaller than the one’s were used to playing on and that’s why they play badly. Personally I just think it’s because they hate to lose haha.
And then it was on to Borders.
Lau and I were very happy at this prospect, because we love Borders. Why? You ask, well for me it’s a combination of two things…
1) It’s filled to the brim with every category of books, especially a very large, very extensive Classics section.
2) Starbucks.
For Lau it’s more just the books!
So yes, after a long perusal through the classics section, I ended up buying:
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Enchanted Castle by E.Nesbit
And I treated myself to a new copy of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ considering my last copy has fallen to bits after my reading it so many times.
There were so many others I wanted to buy, but I’m growing slowly infuriated by the price of books lately. I’m not always totally sold of paying £8 for a story I may end up not enjoying.
I was searching for the new ‘Vanity Fair Portraits’ book but I’d have to order it in especially so it’s going on the Christmas list for now.
And that was it for day three. I spent plenty of cash, bought clothes, books and cups and cups of coffee.
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