Scotland: Aboyne to Aberdeen

Day 35
Distance- 46km (1697)
Weather- clear skies
Highlights- picking the right road to enter town
Lowlights- Tom and Sarah leaving, or were we?
Accommodation- Aberdeen Youth Hostel/Shetland's Ferry

Last day with Sarah and Tom. Sarah wakes to find her shoes melted after leaving them to dry next to the fire. The carnage from the fire is two inner soles, a pair of bike shorts and a pair of shoes. We set off 50km to Aberdeen. A nice few hills a long the B roads and wehit the A road in to town. There is a lovely bike path that makes what could have been hell into a lovely bike ride. As we enter town, Peter discovers why they call this the grey, granite city even in the sunshine the city is dull monotone. A stroke of luck falls our way as we discover the youth hostel is the same street that we are currently on. So we cruise in easily, dump or stuff and head into town. Takes a little time to find somewhere to eat, Bridgette can't remember much from the few months she spent here. We have a nice pub lunch to celebrate finishing. Then off to the bike shop, few things, bike shorts, new shoes, boxes for the bikes.


The weather is hot and we enjoy an ice-cream as we lug the boxes back to the youth hostel. Tom and Sarah need to leave as we return they have a ferry to the Shetlands leaving in a few hours. We then set about putting the bikes and trailers in to the boxes which was easier the second time round. We then dived in to an evening of washing, drying and packing.