Aberdeen; Thursday, 19 January, 2012

A relatively late start to the day and I went for a long wander around the city centre. Unfortunately a lot of the tourist attractions in Aberdeen are closed on a Thursday in mid-January, but the tourist office had a couple of leaflets on walks that you can take around the sights of Aberdeen so I took advantage of those.

The first walk started from near the centre of town and headed up through Old Aberdeen, through the university area and past the old Cathedral.

After stopping off at the Cathedral I continued walking through the nearby park and up to the end of the walk at the old bridge over the river Don.

From here it was a pleasant walk through the Donmouth nature reserve to the dunes and beach and the start of the second walk south, back along the seafront to the harbour and centre of town.

By the time I finally made it back into the centre of Aberdeen it was getting dark, but as it was only about 3:30 that felt a little early to be heading to bed, so instead I visited the maritime museum and after that popped to the cinema to take in a film, before a slightly later dinner than I originally expected and then home