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Highland Journeys specialises in private guided tours of Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside & Highlands

15/10/2026

What an amazing time we have had immersing ourselves in Nature this week in glorious Aberdeenshire! 🍂🍁

I love meeting new families and this young lad had just enrolled at the University of Aberdeen Business School. His mum and dad had flown over from Upstate New York and wanted to spend a few days with him. They found me to show them around this beautiful corner of Scotland!

This was their 1st time in Scotland and they thought it was an incredible place! They were even related to the MacRae clan, so it was meant to be for their son to study here in beautiful Aberdeen! 😍

✅️ Low Carbon Footprint 👣 Tour
✅️ Low emissions vehicle 🚗
✅️ Local Tour Guide 🙋‍♀️
✅️ Local sustainable hotel 🛏
✅️ Local vegan cafe ☕️
✅️ Low carbon activities 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️
✅️ Wildlife sightings 🦌
✅️ Green Tourism 💚 Gold Award Winner ✨️

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01/10/2026

Solo Traveller's are the best!👌

This year I've been touring Aberdeenshire with quite alot of solo traveller's, which is great. It's becoming more and more popular...

This week my guest was on a trip-of-a-lifetime from Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺 to Europe & Britain. She'd never been to Scotland, just London!

We planned her Aberdeenshire tour back in the Spring and her main wish was to see Balmoral Castle
Being a solo traveller, it meant we could spend 3 hours (!) at Balmoral Castle, soaking up the atmosphere and immersing ourselves in all the beautiful gardens & grounds. Also, we enjoyed the homemade soup (from castle garden veggies) and loved browsing in the fab Mews gift shop where locally made gifts were bought for her grandchildren 🎁

We had an amazing day, lots of conversations, sharing many stories and sharing this magical piece of Scotland with her! ⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏰

Haste ye back, Catherine!😊

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24/09/2026

From mountains ⛰️ to the sea! 🌊

Aberdeenshire has it all...it's an amazing place! 👏

Apart from spending time with this lovely couple from Texas, my highlight had to be, seeing lots of wild Atlantic Salmon leaping the waterfalls 🐟

After the recent rains, many salmon had gathered in the pools ready to leap up the Falls to head further upstream to lay their eggs. It really was quite a sight! 😊 I don't think I've ever seen so many!

I jokingly said to the couple, "who needs to go to Alaska to see wild salmon leaping!"

Actually they had visited Alaska recently (!) but they didn't see any wild salmon...wrong time of year! How lucky we were to see salmon leaping in Aberdeenshire! 😀

The couple fell in love with Amazing Aberdeenshire! 👏

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21/09/2026

I jokingly said "let's go and see the King" when I picked my lovely guests up from the Viking Saturn cruise at Aberdeen Harbour. And sure enough we did actually see King Charles and Camilla entering Crathie Kirk and they gave us a wee wave 👋 😄 Charles was looking dapper in his kilt!

My guests were over the moon! We couldn't believe it. This had made their day 😄

It was excellent timing and a well planned itinerary!!! 👌 😃

Our lunchtime stop was tasty homemade soup at Balmoral Terrace cafe, al fresco style! 😋 Balmoral Castle

We also had a stop in Ballater where the place was buzzing with a cycling festival Thrive Ballater 🚲

Haste ye back Barbara and Co.!🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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18/09/2026

Day Three: Dracula's Castle 🏰, Seal Beach 🦭 and Old Aberdeen! 😎

This was our last day of touring the North-East together; sad in a way, but such joy and fun we had, sharing stories and experiencing new places together 🤗
Haste ye back, Sheila!

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11/09/2026

Day Two: ✨️ Our very own Odyssey! 🌊⛵️ along the Banff & Buchan coast ✨️

We travelled a long way from home to visit an ancient castle perched on a cliff miles from anywhere! Last year Hollywood movie star Matt Damon came here to film 🎥 scenes from the movie, The Odyssey. We didn't quite make it down into the castle, too dangerous, instead we decided to have delicious, home-made ice-cream from Portsoy 🍦Portsoy Ice Cream

A few more miles along the coast we arrived at a very isolated fishing village where we had to leave the car at the top of the cliff and walk down into the village. The locals use large wooden wheel barrows to bring their supplies to their homes.

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07/09/2026

From California to Craigievar! 😎🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Day one: My American friend is back on home soil ready to explore the amazing sights and delights of the North-East of Scotland! We kept our first day very eco-friendly 👍😊🌿🍃

✅️ Craigievar Castle - visit and exploring the lovely grounds -conservation & biodiversity of housemartins, bats & insects

✅️ Tomnaverie Stone Circle - enjoying 4,500 year old standing stones

✅️ Muir of Dinnet Nature Reserve - hiking & immersing ourselves in nature VisitCairngorms

✅️ Fish Shop 🐟 Ballater. Delicious lunch from one of the most sustainable restaurants in UK 😋

✅️ Royal Lochnagar Distillery - good local malt wh**ky on our doorstep 🥃

✅️ Stonehaven - return to environmentally-friendly accommodation in Dunnottar Woods

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27/08/2026

Day Three: From the Highlands to the Lowlands! 👌😀

The view from my B&B in Fort William was AMAZING 👏 I woke up to views of the majestic Ben Nevis. Wow! (pic 4) My landlady said she could count on her hands how many dry days they had this year in Fort William! ..so we were SO fortunate to see the top of Ben Nevis ⛰️

Driving through Glencoe was also spectacular scenery ⛰️ and later we arrived in Callander to find a delicious bakery Mhor Bread where the queues were out the door, down the street! 😋

We had one more Castle to see before my guests departed from Edinburgh Airport. Doune Castle was a real hit as my guests were huge fans of the movie, 'Monty Python & the Holy Grail' which was filmed 🎥 there. A great end to their amazing tour of the Highlands! 😀

Haste ye back, Lynn and Dan, we had such fun touring Scotland together, finding some hidden gems and sampling great Scottish food 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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23/08/2026

Day Two: Great fun in the Great Glen of Scotland! 😎
Our surprise find of the day was Glengarry Castle Hotel! Glengarry Castle Hotel What a hidden gem! Calm and serene amongst the mayhem of Loch Ness and Fort Augustus!! Passed it a million times before, but never had the chance to go in. It's like stepping back in time! And the homemade food was delicious. 😋

Feeling relaxed and calm, we had to press on to Glenfinnan to get photos of the Harry Potter steam train on the viaduct. My guests got fab photos and videos, unlike me! They enjoyed their stay in the charming Victorian Glenfinnan House Hotel 😊👌Glenfinnan House Hotel , a perfect end to their day!

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20/08/2026

We're in the Scottish Highlands!! Yeahhh!! 😀👌

Day one of our Highland Adventure has gone really well. I picked up my lovely guests from a cruise ship 🚢 in Aberdeen. Came over the mountains ⛰️ and once we arrived in Inverness-shire we came across the biggest Hairy cows 🐄 I have ever seen and their horns were huge! What a sight and they were so friendly, it made my guests' day!!

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