We set off this morning to walk, for about the third time recently, northeast along the coast path that leads to Dunrobin Castle and Brora and, if one keeps going, John o' Groats, but at the edge of the town we met a small group of people coming down the path visible to the left of this picture. Talking to them, they suggested we could, for a change, follow the Dunrobin Woodland Walk path that they had just enjoyed. It leads up a steep slope, perhaps an ancient cliff line, to....
....open deciduous woodland, with silver birch dominant, and some very pleasant walking along the top of the 'cliff'.
At our age it's rather nice to come across the occasional bench, particularly one which is in the sun and has a view across the fields to the sea, but....
....what struck me most forcibly was, where we met this track which led down to two houses, a notice which said, 'Private, Please' - such a contrast in tone to the quite unpleasant notices to which we became accustomed on some of our Suffolk walks.
The path ended at Dunrobin Castle but there is a network of paths to be explored in this woodland, something we look forward to doing.
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