A winter break in Perthshire (Part 2)

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The White Church (now a community centre) and River Earn, Comrie

Comrie is a pretty village about 7 miles from our holiday apartment at Drummond. We visited twice during our week there.

River Earn and (I think) Ben Chonzie
Field of Refuge
Field of Refuge – I don’t know the origins of this name
A very bossy post box
Comrie Library – sadly under threat of closure
Mountain view

On our first visit we had been to Comrie Croft where we walked a few short trails and used their rather eccentric café twice, for morning coffee and lunch (served from a caravan outside). We didn’t come across any free range children, all seemed to be under control, and we didn’t think we fancied a stay there even if they do call it glamping. We saw a nice waterfall though.

John studying the map
Comrie Croft Café
Elephant clock
Free Range Children
Glamping “Kata”
Waterfall on the Balmenoch Burn
John at waterfall

On our second visit we were there to walk the Glen Lednock circular trail which starts in the village. We followed the River Lednock as far as the Wee Cauldron, but when we got further along the path to the more spectacular Deil’s (Devil’s) Cauldron, where the river emerges from a rock-walled gorge in a double cascade into a wide pool, we discovered disaster had struck. The very high winds of the last few days had taken their toll and we couldn’t get through. Fortunately, when we climbed up to the road we found it had been made passable very recently.

Wee Cauldron
Wee Cauldron
Path blocked by winter stroms
Road cleared after storm

We continued along the road until we came to the shaky bridge where we crossed the river and made our way back to Comrie along the other bank.

Road above river
Path to shaky bridge
Shaky Bridge
Anabel on Shaky Bridge
Melville Monument
Anabel on Glen Lednock Circular
John finds a throne

We also visited the small market town of Crieff twice (not including the brief stop on the outskirts for lunch on our Knock Mary walk as detailed in Part 1). On our first afternoon we had a very wet walk through Macrosty Park to the salmon ladder before taking refuge in the lovely Café Rhubarb for a reviving cup of tea. The cupcake Christmas tree was amusing! We liked the café so much that we returned for breakfast on our way home after checking out of our apartment. From the café window we had a good view of some local street art.

Crieff
Salmon ladder
Salmon ladder
Cupcake Christmas tree
Crieff street art

And so ended our Christmas break. After that, it was back down the road to Glasgow and auld claes and cauld porritch*

*Scottish saying, old clothes and cold porridge, i.e. back to normal.

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  10. I went to cadet camp at Cultybraggan near Comrie as a schoolboy. The weather was foul and the activities were tedious so I have always had a poor opinion of the area. It was good to see a more appreciative take.

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  11. How nice to have these pretty villages nearby and with lots of lovely cafes to visit. I had to laugh at the free range children sign. Our little grandson loves nothing more than to go exploring on his own in this sort of environment.

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  16. So many beautiful photographs of water. That first river shot reminds me of Canada! I’m working my way round the Slate Islands at the moment. Still searching for blue sky. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  19. Looking at your first sets of images I was about to comment on how lucky you were with the weather, but than I came to the mention of rain! Still, there are some lovely bright, if wintery, scenes here 🙂 I love the street art in your final shot too, of course.

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