I was in Aviemore, Scotland with my family
in October 2011. I had been there with my older daughter and mother in 1999. We found in driving north in our rental car from Edinburgh that Aviemore was a good place to stay in the Highlands of Scotland around the Cairngorm mountains. It is located in a valley just below the Cairngorms near lakes that are very beautiful and near reindeer that you can visit today at a public facility. We enjoyed visiting the Carngorm Hotel for a lovely Scottish dinner in a Restaurant popular with locals as well as travelers. We were not able in the moment to get a reservation at the Cairngorm Hotel but were quite happy with staying at Ravenscraig which is a Bed and Breakfast nearby.
The purple and yellow sign in the photo is a part of the Funicular that now days will take you up near the top of the Cairgorms mountains and is the main skiing facility now in Northern Scotland. However, the funicular is open all year around for tourist to take the railed vertical tram up to the tops of the Cairgorms for skiing, viewing or other tourist related travels there.
Though England and Scotland are expensive for American travelers because of the money conversion to the English pound Sterling used throughout Great Britain it is an amazing investment to visit places like London, Edinburgh, all the castles in England and Scotland etc.
I also greatly enjoyed visiting Glastonbury in England (not too far away from Stonehenge and Avebury) and the gravesites of King Arthur and Guinevere there at Glastonbury Abbey. Even in the Olympics they featured Glastonbury Tor where legend has it that the Cup of the Holy Grail was left by Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdelene after Jesus was crucified.
Another place that is amazing to visit is Pitlochry which is almost all the way to Aviemore. Another place nearby Pitlochry is "The Queens' View" which is said to be one of Queen Victoria's favorite views in Scotland overlooking a lake there.
The Queen's View is just a breathtaking view of a large lake which many love to visit. Whereas Pitlochry is like something out of an 1800s movie for the most part. Though streets have widened for Cars and trucks, likely most of the 1800s and 1900s still remains in this very architecturally picturesque village. While there I purchased a wool hat(looks a lot like an Indiana Jones hat) that locals use for walking in mists and rain to stay warm and a Scottish Mack(sometimes called an English cap) made of wool for my son which he often wears to keep his head warm in northern California here on the coast.
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