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Aberdeen, Scotland and surrounding area

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Aberdeen I think can be an interesting town if you decide to stay there a couple days and pick out the certain places you want to visit. I was not so much interested in touring inside the city as I was going there to catch a ferry to the Shetland Islands. I find the countryside around there to be very interesting and much more stimulating than a city.

The much revered EdwardVII, son of Queen Victoria
This local church is obviously active so that it has sufficient funds to be repaired and maintained.
And this is what the church is promoting. This is Scotland!
Of course you can find Thai restaurants in most every city in Scotland. I suspect this one is run by type people but I was not able to check since it was not open when I was there.
Now you know the rest of the story
This was a tourist oriented organic farm where people can buy ice cream and other products.
The ice cream was delicious. You will see the bubble sitting areas in the background. It was pretty cold. A bubble is good protection.
A lot of thought went into these flavors
They have different bins at this tourist farm for recycling and this shows you how to recycle the pizza box. Yes, they do serve pizza here.
This was a good Chinese break from Scotland food though the flavors should’ve been much better.
This is a Palestinian demonstration pushing Barclays bank to divest from Israel.
Do you know a better use of a coffin? I hope this doesn’t signify what happens if you drink there.
These of course are tourist related trinkets possibly for the visitors south of the Scottish border.
He is very revered in Scotland.
Here he is behind a young girl who was a very good Piper
You can guess what they serve here
It looks as though everyone has had their say
This was kind of a nice pub just outside of Aberdeen across the street from my hotel
Beautiful countryside
Across the street from where I was dog sitting
I tried a new site called TrustedHousesitters and this was my first six day stay taking care of Trixie. She was a very easy dog to take care of and it was a beautiful area in the countryside. The arrangement with the website is you stay in someone’s house at no charge to you and they don’t pay you but it’s good for people who are traveling and need a break from the very expensive Scotland hotels and want to just relax in nice places and have some animals to take care of temporarily
The seals come here to hang out and watch the tourists. You have to pay for the parking space but it’s a nice area to take a walk and possibly go for a swim in the summertime. I can’t remember if swimming here is permitted. They definitely don’t want you going close to the seals and disturbing them
The birds also hang out here as you could see from the white coloring on the top of the rocks
Some of the birds and fauna in the area
The seagulls are kind of bored since they’re almost no tourists they can steal food from
This looks like a very pious, religious objective
But it’s on the side of a cannon
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