This spur of the moment diversion to Aberdeen on a long trip through the Karoo, "let's stop here and see if we can get some good Afrikaans koek en tee" (that's tea and cake to those of you who don't speak Afrikaans), led us to the Blue Door Cafe. Aberdeen, the Karoo version, almost doesn't …
One of my all-time favourite places to visit
Loch Leven, on the borders of Fife and Perthshire, in Scotland, is a delight. It's pretty, it's interesting and it's close to my mother's house. Its biggest claim to fame, besides being our go-to-place for strawberry picking as children, is that Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in its castle by her jealous cousin Queen …
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