Last Day in Braemar

Mar Lodge, a beautiful hunting lodge once part of the

Invercauld estate, now in the National Trust; it is

decorated with, among other things, and ISIANMTU,

2,500 stag head mounts

At the Linn of Dee, we thought we'd be seeing a great gorge

Linn of Dee; well, it is nice

The Robert Louis Stevenson cottage in Braemar, where he

wrote Treasure Island in the summer of 1881

We left Braemar reluctantly--we had a great four days there

--after seeing some further local sites. Rather than heading

north toward the Orkneys, as planned previously, we decided

to linger a bit more in the east here, to see a few more castles,

distilleries, and other sights (Balmoral, alas, is not open

when the Queen is there).