Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 June 2007

LAZING ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON






Aberdeen is smiling today, the sun shines and she is bright, green and sparkling again



















In fact the weather was so good we decided to drive out to Balmedie beach which is about 10 minutes along the coast.



Miles and miles of golden sands and lovely dunes for shelter and all wheelchair friendly right up to the sea front itself as you can see from the second to last picture, the wooden walk way winding right down to a picnic table.










After a good walk we found a dune to shelter in close to the sea front, lay down, close your eyes, you could be anywhere. Only blue skies overhead, birds float freely past, Hear the music of the flow and ebb of the waves, the green grass dancing in the breeze. Rest, sleep and on waking help yourself to a rich, red, ripe and sweet strawberry.

Donald Trump has plans for this area. He has applied to the city council to build a world class golf club near these sands. With the addition of course of luxury hotel and luxury homes. He is facing a great deal of opposition, given the natural beauty of this place and the forseen problems with access and increased traffic. To balance it would bring many jobs and be a viable tourist attraction, but something inside me feels there are not many spaces left like these where on can simply escape and enjoy mother nature at its best.

Friday, 29 June 2007

WALK AROUND THE BLOCK

Another wet and rainy evening in Aberdeen a couple of nights ago so I thought I would take you on a walk around the block (Alans not mine). Just round the corner is the central library, adjoining this St Marks church and finally the newly reopened and refurbished His Majesteys Theatre, celebrating its 100th year in a couple of weeks time.
Rick Mayall appeared here in The New Statesman last week and was seen out back puffing on a cigarrette, chatting on his mobile before a performance, many were disappointed the first two nights as he was unable to appear due to illness.




This was taken from Union Terrace gardens a lovely park in the heart of the city, shown here the Bon Accord coat of arms for the city, above are the buildings mentioned before


This is The Cowdray Hall, they hold afternoon concerts in this building, live classical music during ones lunch break and often the venue for conferences and meetings. This building joins Robert Gordons University and Public School..Heading home back past the theatre, church and library one can see this turret?spire? belonging to Rosemount Parish Church. I love this building as looking up from Alans street this is smack bang in the line of vision, it always reminds me of India for some reason looked at from that perspective.


As you can see without sunshine the granite buildings in Aberdeen loose their sparkle and look quite dismal and dull

To brighten things up the last two were taken a couple of days after on Stonehaven beach ( my patch) A little sunshine, Im definitely not made for city dwelling