A family walk at Finzean and a visit to the farm shop

We went for a lovely walk in Finzean yesterday with a visit to the Finzean Farm Shop. Finzean is pronounced “Fing-an”. The z replaces an old letter than no longer exists and has an ng sound.

Finzean is such a pretty spot to walk as it has a good mix of forest as well as fields with views to the surrounding hills. It’s also not touristy like Ballater and has a very rural, farmland feel to it. The farm shop is a good place to stop for refreshments and supplies and also has a lovely art gallery and gift shop attached. It’s not far from Aberdeen either.

It may be the last family walk we do for a while as Daniel starts his university life in St Andrews next weekend. He’s been having driving lessons over the summer and this week drove all the way to Ballater and back which is good progress.

Elizabeth has spent the last few weeks working on a game. It’s a match three game called Baker’s Treble. It’s available to download for Windows and Mac. She did all the coding in Unity and even drew all her own artwork. If you’re on Mac you’ll need to give permission for the game to run in the system settings.