Cottage Diary - Aspenwood self catering luxury Holiday Cottage overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Taking full advantage of the clear blue skies that we have experienced for the past week, we had a pleasant drive of about 50 miles to the Cairngorm Railway at Aviemore and boarded the funicular railway. The journey to the mountain top takes about 8 minutes passing through amazing scenery. The track and tunnels have been very carefully planned in exact detail with the environment uppermost along all steps of the painstaking construction. The carriages were packed full of skiers and snow boarders making the most of the late recent snow showers and there was a good thick layer of snow and ice on the mountain peaks. The temperature outside the viewing deck at the top read just under one degree. Later when we had a picnic at nearby Feshiebridge the temperature registered 12 degrees so quite a difference from top to base camp.

Saw some hilarious sights on the slopes and a few skiers who obviously had been before. Took some video which will appear on the Video Gallery soon...so keep watching.