Skylark's Rest - the Gourdon Holiday Apartment

04/11/2023

Our Christmas Menu available from Friday 1st December to 24th December. 🎄🎅🥂

04/11/2023

21/09/2023

Views that will take your breath away 😮

This castle's beauty changes with the season, when is your favourite time to visit?

Snapped by, instagram.com/neilurquhart_/

21/09/2023

21/09/2023

Wow! We eagerly waited for darkness last night after reports that an interplanetary shock was detected, travelling towards the earth at a hearty 551km/s due to arrive around 3 BST. The aurora watch sites pretty much crashed as the red aurora alerts spread across the country!

The Northern lights, aurora borealis or the ‘Mirrie dancers’! These dancing, pulsating lights are incredible and hypnotic to watch, caused by a solar wind, energised particles from the sun, slamming into our planets upper atmosphere, exciting and ionising particles creating the magical colourful display of light. Our magnetic field protects earth and directs the particles to the poles, hence Northern and Southern lights (aurora borealis and aurora australis).

Usually the lights are more intense the further North you are so try using the camera on your phone to capture the light show if they are not that visible with the naked eye.

Did anyone else see it?

Plenty of pages and apps to sign up to if you are interested :-)

https://www.facebook.com/GlendaleSkyeAuroras / https://aurora-alerts.uk/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/AuroraUK

Thanks Pauline for the great picture taken from just a stones throw from the NNR.

21/09/2023

It's all going on at the wonderful Harbour Bar

25/07/2023

25/07/2023

Our wonderful Makers are back this weekend @ the farm. We have over 40 stall holders coming so should be a good weekend.

23/07/2023

The return of stinging Lion’s Mane Jellyfish at Lunan Bay has annoyingly put a stop to my early morning dips. This beauty was almost 1 metre in diameter! Typical, when the water gets warmer, the jellyfish appear 😡

23/07/2023

It's almost time! Aberdeen Restaurant Week kicks off on Monday 7th August and runs until Sunday 20th August. More than 50 venues have signed up for the promotion offering menu deals at £10, £15, £20, £25 plus tasting menus.

210 Bistro

8848 Restaurant

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Al Fresco Italian Restaurant

All Bar One Aberdeen

Aloft Aberdeen TECA

Amarone Aberdeen

Amore Italian Restaurant

Bar 99 x How Bao Now

Big Mannys’ Pizza x The Adam Lounge

Books and Beans

Café Andaluz

Chaophraya

Chop Grill & Bar

Common Sense Coffee House and Bar

Cup Tea Salon

Da Vinci Italian Restaurant

Faffless

Ferryhill House Hotel

Grape & Grain

Kin Kao Thai

Kohinoor

Mackie's 19.2

Mac’s Pizzeria

McGinty's Meal an' Ale

Molly's Bistro

Namaste Delhi

Olive Alexanders

Padthai Hot Pot and Grill

Poldino's

Quarter House Bar and Restaurant at Hilton Aberdeen TECA

Resident X

Revolucion de Cuba

Shahbaaz

Siberia Bar & Hotel

Six by Nico

Station Hotel Brasserie

Suma Café

The Ashvale Fish Restaurant

The Atrium

The Braided Fig

The City Bar and Diner

The Esslemont

The Globe Inn

The Pigs Wings

The Pinehurst Lodge Hotel

The Spiritualist Aberdeen

The Terrace at His Majesty's Theatre

The Tippling House

Under the Hammer

See all the menus at https://www.aberdeeninspired.com/festival/restaurant-week/restaurants and book with each venue directly

Aberdeen Inspired

23/07/2023

23/07/2023

Happy Friday!

What says summer more than the cacophony of ‘singing’ grasshoppers! Summer is in full swing and the buzz of bees and singing grasshoppers is just wonderful!

This ‘sun kissed’ hopper is an erythristic grasshopper, it has an unusual pink appearance due to a rare genetic abnormality.

I was really surprised to read that some experts suggest that people only have a 1% chance of seeing one in their lifetime! At St Cyrus we must be lucky, we have found a few over the years but never managed a photo, especially one like this! Thank you Ben Freeman, brilliant find and amazing shot!

02/07/2023

02/07/2023

TRAIL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Big Hop Trail is officially LIVE! 🐰

All our sculptures are in place (slightly ahead of schedule!) and our app is available to download. Find out how here: www.thebighop.co.uk/app

That means our hares are ready to be discovered and collected for those using the app...so what are you waiting for?

Check out our dedicated trail website www.thebighop.co.uk for all the information you need to get started - including our ‘Everything you need to know about The Big Hop Trail’ blog here: https://rb.gy/s5vs7

Happy hopping everyone!

📸 is artist Penny Downes with her sculpture, ‘Let your dreams take flight’ at Aberdeen Beach.

29/06/2023

Heading off to the always first class Phoenix Bakehouse Inverbervie and the got-it-all haberdashery-and-more Wm Beatties of Bervie. Loving my fabby bike basket from The Basket Room; easy on easy off (tightened up once loaded with shopping) and so much nicer to bike without a bag! Plus folks just seem to smile more at the sight of a bike n basket? That and the sun, some friendly chat with the folks in shops and back within 15 minutes; this kind of shopping really can be good for you!

Fresh produce from over the Mearns we will have in stock for this week ;

Fresh mixed salad bags
Bunches of kale
Superbly full flavoured fresh herb bags
All from Farm to Table (check them out if you don't know them for more fresh veg year round and a great farm shop!)

And, yay ❤️

Peonies!
From NJ McWilliam & Co by Laurencekirk ( of Flower Field fame). Simple cut peonies also available via their peony shed or cut your own seasonal flowers (not peonies) from their fields. Check socials for updates.

Don't forget, Seahills Farm Strawberries are back, for this weekend only 🍓🍓🍓

See in store for more bike baskets!

Open tomorrow, Friday, 10 till 4 (note earlier than usual as heading off!)
And Saturday 10 till 2

22/06/2023

16/06/2023

Happy Friday! The reserve is looking breathtaking at the moment! From the moment you arrive in the flower filled carpark to the gorgeous views from the cliffs! No picture can do it any justice! Pop down and see for yourselves 😉.

See you at the gala! Hannah, Paula and I will be at our stall. Therese 😊

14/06/2023

This is a really special place - the drive there is wonderful whichever way you come, and the food and scenery are great when you're there too!

Get Ready to Experience the Excitement! 🤩🤩😌 Re - Open from the 10th Of June!

14/06/2023

The Midsummer Beer Happening in Stonehaven - Scotland’s biggest and best-loved summer beer festival – will welcome thousands of visitors when it bursts into life this week.

14/06/2023

02/06/2023

Very much BBQ weather ahead this weekend! ☀️ So our top up of fresh burgers, steaks and sausages from Drumsleed Meats today is very much well timed!

(We’ve got plenty of frozen stock as well if you’re needing a backup supply for the freezer). 👍🏻

We’re open 10-5, seven days a week.