We started our trip to Scotland by landing at Glasgow then picking up a car to drive to the Highlands. Glasgow airport is very easy to navigate and we had our bags in record time. Had to wait a few minutes at the car rental desk but we were on our way to Grantown-On-Spey well before noon. We only made one wrong turn during the entire 3½-hour trip and that was upon leaving the airport!
The rain was with us all the way north until we exited the highway at Aviemore to head east to Grantown-On-Spey (GOS, as the locals call it). Then the sun came out and stayed out for nearly our entire trip!
In GOS, we had arranged to have the room with the 4-post bed at An Cala Guest House. Our hosts, Val & Keith Dickinson, couldn’t have been nicer! They have a lovely sitting room with comfy chairs and sofas where you can relax and watch TV, read or look at the collection of menus they have provided for the local restaurants. Once we had done the latter, we asked Val to make a reservation for us at the Craggen Mill restaurant which was about a 20 minute walk from An Cala (through a cow pasture!)
Before dinner we had a walk to the center of GOS. Our first stop was at the Wee Spey Dram Whisky Shop – surprise, surprise! We sampled a few single malts and I had something called Heather Cream which was a bit like Bailey’s but with more oomph.
We walked down the main street then came back on Grant Street where there were a few restaurants and many homes with absolutely picture-perfect flower gardens such as the one pictured here.
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