点评:After 5 hours on 3 different buses (car was in garage), I'd had enough of beautiful Aberdeenshire scenery and was hoofing up a country track in the rain towards my overnight stop, when I saw the sign for this visitor centre and decided to do a quick recce as I'd arranged to meet my friends there the following day.
Where do I start?
This amazing community enterprise and training facility is all that and so much more. The restaurant was packed and I soon found out why. Cullen Skink (fish soup) is always on the menu for me in these parts, but this version was something else, jampacked with flavourful and nourishing fish - a meal in itself.
There's a little museum and information section about the nearby wartime airfield and the well-supplied visitor centre shop - should really say shops - is/are full of an extensive range of clothes, practical items, books and gifts to please many tastes.
I spent much longer there than I meant to, and was back next day for coffee, cakes and another rake round the shop with my delighted friends, before we set off to see the nearby windfarm.
Before we left the area, I managed a quick look round the beautiful garden centre which - even in early Autumn - was an experience not to be missed. (Fat grapes growing happily in a wee coastal shelter in autumnal north-east Scotland. Did you ever...?) That's when I really missed the car, or at least its boot. So, you see, I'll definitely have to go back there very soon.
Denied (temporarily) the pleasure of purchasing a tree or plantpots, it was back to the inside, where, at long last, I was able to buy stabilisers for my bird table along with tiny metallic gift boxes with tasteful pictures of Highland cattle (the latter just £2 each) for my friends.
There's a lovely feel about this visitor centre and I was given help and shown great kindness there. I just wish it was a bit closer than 5 hours away. It'll be quicker when I get the wheels back.
翻译:在坐了 3 辆不同的巴士(车停在车库里)后,我欣赏够了美丽的阿伯丁郡风景,在雨中沿着乡间小路朝我的过夜地点走去,这时我看到了这个游客中心的标志,并决定快速侦察一下,因为我已经安排好第二天在那里和朋友们见面。
我从哪里开始呢?
这个令人惊叹的社区企业和培训设施不仅如此,而且还有更多。餐厅人满为患,我很快就知道了原因。Cullen Skink(鱼汤)总是出现在我这边的菜单上,但这个版本与众不同,里面挤满了美味又营养的鱼 - 本身就是一顿美餐。
这里有一个小博物馆和关于附近战时机场的信息区,而货源充足的游客中心商店 - 应该说是商店 - 里面有各种各样的衣服、实用物品、书籍和礼物,可以满足各种口味。
我在那里待的时间比我计划的要长得多,第二天我又回来喝咖啡、吃蛋糕,和高兴的朋友们又逛了一圈商店,然后我们出发去参观附近的风力发电场。
在我们离开该地区之前,我快速浏览了一下美丽的花园中心,即使是在初秋,这也是一次不容错过的体验。(秋天的苏格兰东北部,一小片沿海避难所里,硕大的葡萄快乐地生长着。你有没有……?)那时我真的很想念那辆车,或者至少是它的后备箱。所以,你看,我肯定很快就得回去那里了。
暂时失去了购买树木或花盆的乐趣,我回到了里面,在那里,我终于能够为我的鸟桌购买稳定器,以及带有高地牛图片的小金属礼品盒(后者每个只需 2 英镑)送给我的朋友。
这个游客中心给人一种可爱的感觉,我在那里得到了帮助和极大的善意。我只是希望时间能比 5 小时短一点。等我拿回车子的时候就快多了。