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On Thursday morning we had breakfast and went back to bed because we’d had such a bad night’s sleep the night before (we slept on the sofa bed instead of the main bed for reasons described in the forthcoming Norwood Hall posting). By 1pm we’d switched rooms and were free to go out and enjoy Aberdeen. ‘Enjoy Aberdeen’ is probably a contradiction in terms, I’ve never seen somewhere so grey with tiny little tenements lined up row after row. We headed North out of Aberdeen for Forvie Nature Reserve – a place allegedly full of migrating winter birds and sand dunes which sounded like something a bit different from castles and snow. I was still keen to test the Digimax on something different, so a contrasting environment seemed a good idea.

Traffic was a bit heavy getting out of Aberdeen, we accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up finding a Macdonalds for lunch. What a result – evil normal food for lunch, eaten in the car whilst listening to Radio two report on how bad the weather was down South and Big Brother’s racial issues. It was quite odd to hear of the gales because it was blue cloudless skies for us; we had expected it to be the other way around in Scotland! Anyhow, we ate up our carbohydrates and went to Forvie.

When we arrived at Forvie Nature Reserve we were, unsurprisingly, the only people crazy enough to visit a Nature Reserve in January. It was freezing cold outside but we both had our hats, scarves and gloves. Armed with cameras we went in search of photo opportunities, the sun was starting to come down and I took about 150 photographs whilst it did so. Suzie_Q got very cold and went back and waited in the car, but just as I headed back the most amazing sunset occurred, keeping me transfixed with the camera for a further 20 minutes.

I got back to the hire car to find Suzie_Q driving around the car park. I got in and Suzie_Q drove us all the way back to Norwood Hall, discovering along the way that it’s the Vauxhall Vectra’s awful gear box that causes the jerking and wheel spinning… and not just my driving technique. When we got back to Norwood Hall I went through the photographs, binning half and keeping some of the good ones – well worth the trip to Forvie even if we only saw three birds!

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