Day 10 - Sunday 15th May
Braemar - Lochcallater Lodge
(9km / 240m ascent)
Note the name of the whisky!
This was a difficult day - we started with good intentions at the trendy new cafe on the way in to Braemar from the Linn of Dee, and went through the menu of fruit cordials, excellent coffees and lovely snacks with all the Sunday papers to wade through.
We only popped in to the Fife just to see who had arrived. A wonderful five hours later we were staggering up the golf course road with carry-outs on our way to Stan's at Lochcallater Lodge.
Somehow I got caught up in a deer fence. But we made it relatively unscathed to Stan's to be met by Stan & Bill and their amazing hospitality. I had missed them the previous year so I had a bit of ground to make up, which I wasted no time in sorting out. All the usual suspects were there - including Croydon (Mick Hopkins) Morpeth & Mick, Maggie Hems and Skippy (Dave Skipp)
I have no idea what time we got to our beds, but we had sung and drunk together in one big happy family of Challengers.
