Netta – 93 years young @Fonab Castle, Pitlochry

Netta @93 years young

Special Macintyre day as Netta, Carole's mum celebrated her 93rd birthday with a special and excellent afternoon tea at Fonab Castle, Pitlochry. 

CRM and Netta

 

 Group – Netta, Ruaridh, Rowan and Susie

Susie and Rowan 

(above and below) 

 

 Rowan – 'young blue eyes'

Grandma Christine with Rowan

Calum 

Sandeman Restaurant

 

James Payne, maître d' and sommelier 

at Fonab Castle with a bottle of 1982 Sandeman Vintage Port 

James Payne – Confrérie du Sabre d'Or

Wine storage @Fonab Castle  

 Original entrance to the castle

 – now a small reception room

(above and below)

.... with its selection of whisky

 View from Fonab Castle over the River Tummel

China – walled in!

 The wall snakes over the mountains

If in Beijing for the first time a visit to the Great Wall is obligatory even though it took us hours to get there because of the traffic. Despite the time spent in jams the Great Wall is spectacular and worth the effort. Parts of the wall are very steep, so the soldiers must have kept very fit! It is also an amazing feat of engineering but a certainly deadly one with as many as 400,000 perishing during its construction.

JB and CRM @the Wall

 CRM iFoning the wall

CRM on the steepest part 

CRM ... nearly there 

Local man relaxing on the wall

Newtonmore – up the Calder and Glen Banchor

Glen Banchor and the River Calder

 

Commemorative plaque and the hills 

 

Glen Banchor and the River Calder

 

River Calder

 (above and below)

Dear target practice 

Cemetery and view southwards 

(above and below) 

 

A path to follow

Monarch Apartments