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Personmaughanjen
07/12/2017 at 11:03pm
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Fiona what a brilliant post, we 'found' Mossyard this year and after an hour booked again for 2018. No pub but with careful planning and a glass or two it's ideal.
I'm writing all your suggestions down and will have a look in the New Year.
Thank you


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PersonFiona W
08/12/2017 at 7:06pm
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Quote: Originally posted by maughanjen on 07/12/2017
Fiona what a brilliant post, we 'found' Mossyard this year and after an hour booked again for 2018. No pub but with careful planning and a glass or two it's ideal.
I'm writing all your suggestions down and will have a look in the New Year.
Thank you



You're welcome! Lots more to see & do in D&G, but OP's brief was campsite views, campsite pub, dog.
You might want to get some 1:50,000 OS maps. Dash4it has them at about 3 for the price of what 2 cost in a shop. There are so many little castles (Orchardton is my favourite, round & cute) and abbeys and stone circles & Cairn Holy (the most atmospheric cairn I know) (all blue hatched on the map) & back C roads reward exploring.

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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.


PersonSpeaker12
08/12/2017 at 10:48pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 08/12/2017

You might want to get some 1:50,000 OS maps. Dash4it has them at about 3 for the price of what 2 cost in a shop.


If you have a tablet or phone with you it's worth getting an OS digital subscription I think - £19.99 a year for all their maps digitally + extra features like 3D aerial mapping and route plotting. You can download areas for offline viewing. You can link it to GPS too if you're out walking - handy if you get lost!



PersonSpeaker12
08/12/2017 at 10:52pm
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Oh and if the OP goes to Dalbeattie then a visit to Carson's butchers is a must - best steak pie ever


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PersonCapt Lightning
09/12/2017 at 8:00am
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Forget the technology and just get the Southern and Northern Scotland maps from Dash4it. It's so much more satisfying to spread out a map and see 'the big picture'.



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PersonSHARON89
09/12/2017 at 8:47am
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Thats what we do, its fun and makes it more interesting.


Personpjproby123
10/12/2017 at 10:54am
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In the Cairngorms visit Braemar Caravan Park, great for walking,sight seeing as a base for visiting other areas and great for dogs. The walks and the views are amazing. It is not a Caravan Club site or C&CC site.

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PersonSHARON89
10/12/2017 at 11:11am
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we are booked on that in April can not wait, looking forward to it.looks a great site.


PersonCapt Lightning
10/12/2017 at 1:41pm
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Braemar is a CAMC affiliated site, so special rates for CAMC members. It's one of my favourite sites, though I've never had to book more than a few days in advance. The village only has a few small shops, so stock up before you go.

Take a walk round the Queen's Drive (this is the path used by Queen Victoria to visit her gamekeeper in his cottage - now only a few stones remaining). Continue on to get a great view over the Dee and Invercauld house. Plenty of wild deer, red squirrels and occasional Golden Eagle.   Braemar castle is worth a visit.


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Personpjproby123
10/12/2017 at 1:54pm
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Unfortunately we stopped being affiliated to C&MHC on 29th October 2017.

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PersonRudy-de-Cologne
10/12/2017 at 4:42pm
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Hi Darklord,
I'm from Germany and have toured Scotland this september for 4 weeks...with car & caravan.
First of all:
We've planned to travel in september because the midges are already on the decline (which was right!).
We also thought about travelling in a time where there are no schoolholiday or bankholidays...to avoid the crowds...
And last but not least we had experienced many years where september had mostly been a month with calm and mosty dry (and often sunny) weather...
But reality hit us badly!...
Although there were no holidays around...there were thousands of motorhomes (most of them hired ones) even on the most northerly single-track-roads... it was awful because many drivers seemed absolutely unexperienced by driving a huge motorhome (for the first time in their life!)... They even stopped their vehicles in the passing-places for lunch..causing problems for any others trying to pass by.
So be prepared for very much motorhomes, especially on the Isle of Skye and further north on the new route "North500" (which we did this year).
And despite a weatherwise very wet and unsettled september, the campsites all around scotland where often "full". So... reservations are advisable !!! (we didn't have this in all the years before).
Weatherwise it has been one of the wettest septembers since long... So...be prepared for driving in rainy conditions with nearly no view onto the beauties of the landscape...
Apart from these mentioned points...we enjoyed our full-months-trip to Scotland very much... especially because we had the luck of brilliant weatherconditions on the days of our planned highlights (daytrip to Orkneys; mountain-gondola up Nevis Range). - Thanks God for that...
We will certainly return to Scotland...probably next time in may...before the midges.
But next end of may we will travel to Wiltshire for a fourthnight. It's nice there too !


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PersonDARKLORD
14/12/2017 at 11:07am
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Thank you for all the replies
Let the booking begin
Tony

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