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Some pleasant walks
Feb. 13th, 2023 05:38 amWe have been exploring Aberdeen's festival of light. It is over a few evenings which, judging by queues, doesn't seem to be quite enough. Among other things, there are giant glowing figures, and apparently a dance routine where we arrived around when it finished. One of the glowing figures suffered technical difficulties but we remained for long enough to see it restored to its former glory.
Yesterday evening, we walked back down to attend the maybe largest part of the festival, in Union Terrace Gardens, that we had previously postponed in view of the queue, which is probably at least an hour long. Before joining the queue, I picked up some takeaway Taco Bell, and ate as I waited. Here in the UK, the seven-layer burrito remains on the menu, a favourite of mine among their fare. Once we were finally admitted to the gardens, we found that the festival site included some nice clanking trees whose glowing orbs' brightness was related to the clanks, and a glowing fox and owl. I also noticed some drones high in the air above.
Queueing rather less, we have also visited woodland and the like. There may have been interesting animals but I am bad at spotting those, at best I managed the two small deer that crossed the trail right in front of us. Maryculter Woods is one of the closer such destinations. We were generally lucky in getting a parking space in what were mostly small, busy car parks. The weather in recent days has been most cooperative with such expeditions.
One nice thing about Aberdeen is that parking at the beach is easy and free so, yesterday afternoon, we returned and got to see plenty more dogs being exercised, some getting into the water, also the usual couple of people in wetsuits out swimming or surfing. Graffiti asks,
Yesterday evening, we walked back down to attend the maybe largest part of the festival, in Union Terrace Gardens, that we had previously postponed in view of the queue, which is probably at least an hour long. Before joining the queue, I picked up some takeaway Taco Bell, and ate as I waited. Here in the UK, the seven-layer burrito remains on the menu, a favourite of mine among their fare. Once we were finally admitted to the gardens, we found that the festival site included some nice clanking trees whose glowing orbs' brightness was related to the clanks, and a glowing fox and owl. I also noticed some drones high in the air above.
Queueing rather less, we have also visited woodland and the like. There may have been interesting animals but I am bad at spotting those, at best I managed the two small deer that crossed the trail right in front of us. Maryculter Woods is one of the closer such destinations. We were generally lucky in getting a parking space in what were mostly small, busy car parks. The weather in recent days has been most cooperative with such expeditions.
One nice thing about Aberdeen is that parking at the beach is easy and free so, yesterday afternoon, we returned and got to see plenty more dogs being exercised, some getting into the water, also the usual couple of people in wetsuits out swimming or surfing. Graffiti asks,
is the water real?The woodland trails also see a fair few dogs being walked.
