Posts for May, 2022

Open from 11am, with stalls from pet supplies to crafters and bouncy castles to BBQs. There will also be fun games in the arena from midday before judging starts. All breeds welcome.

Categories include:
Most Handsome Boy, Best rescue, Best fancy dress, waggiest tail or wiggliest bum and Best trick!

Come and celebrate the Platinum Jubilee with us on Friday 3rd June (11am-3pm) at our Jubilee Food Festival at Rothiemurchus.

An event for foodies and families with local produce to sample, fabulous food and drink stalls and lots of family fun to be had too!

Think Santa and his real reindeer herd. Think amazing experiences with our elves workshop. This is just the start of a truly unforgettable experience for the whole family. Get in the festive spirit when you meet with Santa in his woodland grotto, where you can get up close to his real reindeer and visit the Elf Village. Splash in the pool, watch the big Christmas panto and enjoy our full entertainment programme. With so much to see and do this festive season on resort, we know you’ll have a truly memorable Christmas experience.

On arrival, soak up the festive atmosphere in the resort and take a walk around our beautiful grounds. Make sure to keep an eye out for Santa and his elves at his woodland grotto, and visit his real-life reindeer onsite! There’ll be extensive entertainment including a live Christmas panto, festive cinema listings, and special dining experiences included every day to suit all tastes. In the mornings, awake to a delicious full Scottish breakfast, then take some time to swim in the heated indoor lagoon pool with flumes and wave machine.

Think Santa and his real reindeer herd. Think amazing experiences with our elves workshop. This is just the start of a truly unforgettable experience for the whole family. Get in the festive spirit when you meet with Santa in his woodland grotto, where you can get up close to his real reindeer and visit the Elf Village. Splash in the pool, watch the big Christmas panto and enjoy our full entertainment programme. With so much to see and do this festive season on resort, we know you’ll have a truly memorable Christmas experience.

On arrival, soak up the festive atmosphere in the resort and take a walk around our beautiful grounds. Make sure to keep an eye out for Santa and his elves at his woodland grotto, and visit his real-life reindeer onsite! There’ll be extensive entertainment including a live Christmas panto, festive cinema listings, and special dining experiences included every day to suit all tastes. In the mornings, awake to a delicious full Scottish breakfast, then take some time to swim in the heated indoor lagoon pool with flumes and wave machine.

Get together before Christmas with friends, loved ones or colleagues and enjoy a long overdue Christmas party night.

Includes:
Three-course party night menu
Half a bottle of wine per person
Live music from Drams Ceilidh Band
DJ sessions
Choice to add an overnight stay
Extra drinks packages available

Join us at the award winning Lynbreck Croft with foraging expert Clare Holohan from West Highland Herbal and co-author of Scotland’s Wild Medicine for a day learning about wild plants.

You will learn how to identify and use local plants for all round health, which will include a walk around the grounds of the croft in the morning with some foraging and discussion on food and medicinal uses of the plants we find.

You’ll then gather for a feast lunch, which will include some croft grown produce, supplemented with anything edible we find in the morning.

In the afternoon, you’ll head back out with Clare to do some more practical learning, either making remedies or foods with whatever we have found. Throughout the day, we will talk a little about how we work with nature and our team of animals to build biodiversity across Lynbreck, a place that can provide for all of us.

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A family fun day on the village Greens in the centre of Ballater on Royal Deeside involving over 50 trade, craft and charity stalls, with entertainment for children including hook-a-duck and bouncy castle. As well as the local shops, restaurants and cafes, there are food stalls on the Green. The Ballater Pipe Band plays and there is live musical entertainment on the stage from Banchory Strathspey & Reel Society, culminating in a giant inflatable duck race on the River Dee at 3pm and a Tote operates if anyone fancies a ‘flutter’ on one of the ducks.

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Following the success of our Easter egg hunt last year, we’re gong to do it again a little earlier this year in aid of the Ukraine appeal.

Come and find all the hidden eggs in the Highland Games Park, and put them on your entry. Every child that enters will receive a handmade chocolate egg – until we run out!! Suggested donation for entering – or whatever you can afford – every single penny of the entry donations will go direct to the Ukraine appeal.

At the end of the weekend one lucky entrant will receive an extra special prize – just in time for Easter!!!

The lineup for this year’s Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, one of the world’s most anticipated whisky celebrations, has been unveiled.
Over five hundred events within the Festival, which runs from 27 April to 2 May, have been announced. These will allow ticket holders exclusive access to world famous distilleries, the chance to meet the craftspeople behind the liquid and immerse themselves in the heart of malt whisky country.

The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival team gathered yesterday (3 March) with key event partners to reveal some of the events on offer. Tickets will be available to buy on Tuesday 8 March.

Programme highlights include History of the Highball with whisky legend Sarah Burgess, an evening not to be missed with Glen Moray’s Iain Allan at Elgin Cathedral and one of a kind experiences at a number of distilleries not usually open to the public including Dufftown, Tamdhu and Tamnavulin distillery tours and tastings.

George McNeil, chairman of The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, said:

“We have an impressive range of events on offer, with some stellar new additions to the 2022 programme including an eclectic amalgamation of Star Wars and whisky tasting in memory of Brett Ferencz known to many as the Scotch Trooper, with 25% of ticket sales going towards cancer research.

“The last few years have been difficult for everyone and as we begin to return to normality I know that the many partners and people who help to bring the Festival to life are gearing up to welcome people from all over the globe to Speyside.

“I hope to see people from far and wide joining us to celebrate the world’s largest producing whisky region, from whisky novices, budding master blenders and everyone in between. I look forward to welcoming people once again to an area I am lucky enough to call home.”

Paul Bush OBE, VisitScotland’s Director of Events, said:

“We are delighted to support the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival through our International Events Funding Programme. Its 2022 line-up of tastings, ceilidhs, distillery tours and more looks set to deliver another fantastic celebration of Scotland’s national drink. Uniquely Scottish events such as the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival can only serve to further strengthen the country’s reputation as a world-leading events destination.”