Winter is coming..

Hi Everyone,

As the time passed on, the weather become colder (no surprise here..), but with that, our little trips are become less and less frequent. Mostly just around the town, or to the sea.. 

After we managed to get all the necessary papers for Maxim (took us a month), our life adapted some sort of routine, grew into a less chaotic, calmer and more peaceful. We finally settled down here (for a while).

I saw a quote from GOT on a toilet door: 'Brace yourself, winter is coming.' and a comment: 'It has never really gone..' and I thought whoever wrote that comment was absolutely right.. In my memory, from September to May the weather was always cold and rainy, but it seems this year the weather changed its mind and turned into a very warm autumn (the credit goes to that 2 hurricanes what brought warm, dry air from desert) and a relatively warm winter (so far).

But before winter, we visited a couple of places :D

There is a woodland near Persley Walled Garden, (upper stream of river Don) which leads back to Seaton Park if you follow the river. It is a nice and easy walk, but do not come here after rain..

There is a sidewalk near the bridge which leads you to a hiking trail. This is how the bridge looks like. The river is wide and calm..

.. until this point.

Dirt road guides you through the woods. I don't know what  happens here, but I rarely meet any people in places like this.. Maybe the people here don't like to go to explore the nature of this city..
I hope that some of you who are here, and haven't been in these places yet, get the taste of these and visit them.

A lonely bench here, providing excellent view to the river and flora around it.

Signpost guarantees you won't get lost :P

We don't know what it is. It looked abandoned, but the lawn was cut around it, so it should be maintained for a reason..

We crossed some weird places like this one.. and to be honest i wouldn't dare coming here alone.

A lovely footbridge, unfortunately closed down. :(

From this point forward the dirt road turned into a modern concrete-wood road.

The Donside Hydro.

Still under construction.. it promises to create clean, renewable electricity.

more information: https://vimeo.com/178159832

Following the trail leads back to Seaton Park.

This is already the Park.

Aaand yes, that is a deer. It has a mate for sure, maybe offspring too.

We used to see them (the 2 bigger ones) on the way from lidl through Seaton Park around dusk. Even saw a fox for a couple of time, tho it was far to take a normal picture of it, and on the other times it was too dark to take any pictures.

The days of long walk #3.5

Good evening Everyone :)

The title this time is a bit misleading, because we did go outside, but we did that by bicycle. Here the travelogue of our first and apparently the last bicycle ride in Scotland in 2017.  

We chose a destination close to our home, being this is our first bicycle ride in traffic etc. The importance of this village we were about to visit is that it has a nice sandy beach, also a nature reserve, like no other places.

So we prepared some lunch, packed bottled water and off we go.. :)

The ride there was surprisingly easy (that 4 month prior in Budapest cycling to work made its job :P) and quiet, true it was on a weekday morning. There were some clouds on the sky, but the air was still warm, making it a perfect day for biking.

We stopped twice before we reached the beach, first time something was wrong with my bike, (the guys tried to fix my breaks a couple of day back and actually forgot to tighten a screw... ¬.¬

But while Maxim was fixing my bike, I took a couple of pictures :D

This is also taken on the top of the hill  and you can see the sea from here. (like Scotland made up only from hills and sea :D ) 

 And from where we came :) All green, and there were a lot of Angus cows (future burgers) on the way. :)

We hold a break for the second time  to eat blackberries. We almost reached the nature reserve, when Maxim stops, leaves the bicycle on the side of the road (The whole village seemed to be empty) and goes to the nearest green bush. HE FOUND BLACKBERRIES (It is sooo him..) so we ate all the blackberries. :D I didn't take any picture, was too focused on eating :D

So we finally manage to reach the nature reserve. The whole park is like this. Sandy and green :)

Again, there were a lot of hills we had to climb, but the view worth it.

After the hill, there's the sea :)

I really like that whoever refurbished the park, he thought about the elderly, the disabled and mothers with buggies.. there are these wooden roads across the park, make it easier to reach the beach and walking around the park.

Had our lunch on the beach :) <3

A burrow where a fox resides maybe.. :)

 

When we came home we chose a different way. To be honest I saw a small loch on the map near us, and I wanted to see it. We actually lost in the middle of nowhere, take almost 2 hours of detour, but finally found it. Aaaand didn't worth it. Imagine something like Naplas to in Budapest... :/ But, the view.. still amazes me.

Every time I go to the shire I am astonished by the landscape..

We found sheep (haha Misa, I hope you read the blog :P ) and again a blackberry field.

The days of long walk #3 To the lighthouse and beyond

Good afternoon Everyone :)

Before I show you how winter came to our lovely city, I would like to guide you back to summer (or at least to the end of summer).

We visited the lighthouse :) which is approx. 60 mins walking from home, and can be a pain in the ass especially when you have a small 'tank' (by Szilard) since there isn't any proper toilets and you drank a lot of water.

Just in advance, it will be a longer post, tho not much text, it is said that 1 picture worth 1000 worlds and I don't really have anything else to say about the place, so I let the pictures say it all.

So the route there (what Maxim discovered) leaded us to a lot of blackberries so for a while we just went to the blackberries and eat all :D

Just a selfie, proving Maxim is still safe and sound :D

btw, that is another river (River Dee, like Dee-Dee from Dexter's laboratory)

These are the blackberry fields (what I failed to notice first).

On the top of that little hill what we climbed up there is a some sort of artillery battery and this is what can be seen from it. According to Wikipedia, the artillery was used to defend the city in both world wars.

The harbor is in the background.

And now I shout up my mouth. :) See what comes after the artillery.

We were lucky that day. The sun was shining, the wind was warm, the sea was beautiful, blue and clean, like it is calling to you to go and swim in it.Tho, the water was still around 4°C which is bloody cold. Thankfully not many people come here, thus you often find yourself alone, just looking at the sea, hearing the only the waves and just thinking about life. We saw a pod of dolphins traveling north. It is hard to believe just by looking at these pictures that it is the same cold and grey place we calls home now (for a while). But for this, I am glad I could share this with Maxim and with you guys.