Perth Farmers Market

Never usually get the chance to get down to Perth Farmer's Market, but today was the day, superb array of produce.  Lots of photographs which were all taken by my No.2 daughter and she apologises to any of the market stalls she missed out, Enjoy!

The market is on the first Saturday of every month and they hold two in December and none in January.  Perth Farmer's Market.

Achalader House and Graveyard

 About 3-4 miles heading out of Blairgowrie on the Dunkeld Road there is an old graveyard and the remains of an old house called Achalader.  First I had to work out how to get to the graveyard as there was the Cattymill stream to negociate and I didn't have my wellies on and it was too wide to jump.  So I continued along the single track road and saw an obvious track/road which may take me in the general correct direction but the big red No Entry signs sort of put me off. 

 I went back to the road and found an old gate and a suggestion of a path so just followed it and came across the very overgrown undisturbed graveyard.  My main quest though was to find the ruins of Achalader House.

 I followed the path passing some stunningly huge trees ,it must have been an impressive 'parkland' at some time.

 And then hey presto the 'ruins', all that was left was some piles of rubble.  Supremely disappointed as there are some great pictures on the internet of it, albeit of a derelict house. Never mind my own fault for not searching it out sooner, I think it must have been demolished in the last couple of years.  Here are some photos of what I was looking for and if you google Achalader House you will find bits and pieces of information.

A wander up the Riverbank at Dunkeld

The 1st of November, happy birthday to me, and it was a lovely sunny day for the start of the month.  I have plenty little jobs I could be getting on with in the B&B now it is getting quieter, but just to nice to be indoors.  The Dunkeld Hilton Hotel have placed quite a lot of geocaches in their grounds so that's the area the ever faithful dog and I headed.  I only managed to get around less than half of the caches and a couple of others placed by other people but hopefully there is always another day.

 I parked at the north car park in Dunkeld and followed the path around the back of the cathedral and just kept going.

 This ancient larch tree was planted by one of the Dukes of Atholl from seed brought over from Europe.  Since then over 14 million larch trees have been planted in the area.  Pictures that follow are general views along the walk.

 Once I reached the bridge that carries the main A9 over the mighty Tay I retraced my steps.


The pine cone viewpoint from a different perspective.




Neil Gow's oak - in the 18th century this famous fiddler used to sit under this tree where he created his best compositions.





Came across this great geocoin, I didn't take it to move on to another geocache though, I left it for someone who can probably travel further afield with it than me.





And back at Dunkeld Cathedral.