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Your food always looks so good. I don't like hot or spicy food either. My brothers are the opposite, they love hot stuff.
The stone circle looks very interesting. Your sunset pictures are lovely. The scenery around that area is so prtetty.
Liz
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Happy to see dinner was good. Marks dessert looks delicious!
That view though, wow. I could stare at that for hours.
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Amazing views from your room and I would never get bored of that! Your choices for dinner looked very good and seems you and Mark enjoyed it.
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Your light dinner looked very appealing! So cool to see a stone circle there on the property. I can see how that view from your room could be mesmerizing.
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Monday 19 June – part one: I could get used to this!
We woke up to more stunning views this morning…
Wow, I really could get used to this! It was just beautiful.
I went to use the special shower again, but passed on the sauna, as it was warm in the room already.
We headed down for breakfast, and the whole hotel was there – well Ok, just the other two couples… I was very impressed with the selection, as they had an amazing mango and papaya yoghurt that I loved so much I went back for seconds. They also had mixed fresh fruit, but when I arrived, I noticed it was all with apple in, but the woman had just done some without, so I was able to sample that.
Perhaps unsurprisingly by now Mark got a Scottish breakfast with no black pudding…
… while I went for the poached eggs on toast with hollandaise sauce…
Now notice anything missing? I wondered where the hollandaise sauce was and asked the others in what I thought was a fairly quiet voice if I’d actually ordered it, and they told me I had. At almost the same moment, I heard the woman yell at her husband, and ask where the hollandaise was. I guess she’ll have heard me then… Oh well, it arrived in the end.
We finished our packing, and headed out. Yet again, I swear we’d packed in a different way…
I had truly loved our stay here, and we both said we could easily see ourselves returning here.
We stopped on the way out to get some final shots of the estate…
…. through the village of Aboyne…
… and then through the beautiful gorse, which I always think of when I think of Scotland.
What a lovely hotel, from start to finish. The breakfast looked picture perfect, and especially since there was nobody there! Such a beautiful start to the day. Hope it continues.
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I would so go back there in a heartbeat. You're right, it was just perfect the whole time we were there. However, what it would be like when it's packed, I don't know...
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The breakfast looked picture perfect, and especially since there was nobody there! Such a beautiful start to the day. Hope it continues.
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Your choices for dinner looked very good and seems you and Mark enjoyed it.
So cool to see a stone circle there on the property. 
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I was very impressed with the selection, as they had an amazing mango and papaya yoghurt that I loved so much I went back for seconds. They also had mixed fresh fruit, but when I arrived, I noticed it was all with apple in, but the woman had just done some without, so I was able to sample that. 
Oh well, it arrived in the end. 
A bit of a spoiler, but sadly it didn't....
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