Golf
Those interested in golf could not be better positioned...
Inchmarlo Golf Centre is only a five iron away and offers an 18 hole
championship golf course, a nine hole golf course and a floodlit driving
range.
Other courses within a short distance include:
Banchory, Torphins, Aboyne, Alford, Ballater, Tarland, Peterculter,
Stonehaven, and Britain's highest course at Braemar. The famous links
course at Cruden Bay, which consistently appears in the top fifty
British Courses, is less than an hour's drive away.
Fishing
Keen fishermen will find the world famous salmon fishing offered by
the river Dee only a stones throw away. Even nearer is Raemoir Trout
Fishery with three fly-fishing lochs and a children's bait pool.
Many other opportunities are close by including the rivers Don and
Spey, trout fisheries at Glen Tanar, Midmar, Ballater and Strathdon
and sea angling and mackerel fishing from many of the small fishing
ports along the coast.
Other activities available include:
Mountain biking, Hang-Gliding, Pony trekking, Hill walking, Shooting,
Gliding, Quad biking, Paintball, Sailing, Skiing, Snowboarding (winter
only!!), Canoeing and many more...
MAJOR EVENTS HAPPENING NEARBY IN 2009
APRIL
11 Clachnaben Hill Race, Strachan
25 Balmoral Road Races, Balmoral Estate
MAY
1-10 Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, Speyside
13-17 WORD, University of Aberdeen Writers Festival
9-15 Royal Deeside Golf Week
16-22 Royal Deeside Walking Week
20-24 Macbeth Fest, Deeside Activity Park, Dess
24 Vintage Car Rally, Banchory
JUNE
4-6 23rd Great Grampian Beer Festival, Aberdeen
6 Feein’ Market, Stonehaven
6 Taste of Grampian Food Festival, Inverurie
7 Scolty Hill Race, Banchory
13/14 St Ternan’s Medieval Fair, Banchory
13 Balmoral Pipe Band Championships, Balmoral Castle
14 Aberdeen Highland Games, Aberdeen
20-21 Castle Fraser Steam and Vintage Fair, Inverurie
20-21 RW Thomson Memorial Rally, Stonehaven
27 Drumtochty Highland Games, Auchenblae
JULY
4 Fettercairn Show
5-28 Aboyne and Deeside Festival
2-5 Stonehaven Folk Festival
2-5 Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, Portsoy
11 Braemar Junior Highland Games
11 Echt Show
18 Tomintoul Highland Games
18-26 Active Aboyne Outdoor Festival
18 North East Clan Ball and Gala Evening, Haddo House
18-3 Aug North East Clan Fortnight
19 Stonehaven Highland Games
19 Aboyne Sheepdog Trials
19-24 Royal Deeside Golf Classic, Ballater
25 Banchory Agricultural Show & Family Day
29-8 Aug Aberdeen International Youth Festival
AUGUST
1 Aboyne Highland Games
7-16 Ballater Victoria Week
13 Ballater Highland Games
15 Tarland Show
15-16 Banchory Steam and Vintage Rally, Milton of Crathes
22 Lonach Highland Gathering and Games, Strathdon
28-30 Fyvie Homecoming Festival
29 Clydesdale Horse Show, Aberdeen
29-30 Aberdeen Summer Flower Show
SEPTEMBER
3-13 Aberdeen International Jazz Festival
5 Aberdeenshire Open Doors Day
5 Braemar Gathering
7-11 Aberdeen Energy Festival
11-21 Techfest, Aberdeen
25-11 Oct The Doric Festival, Aberdeenshire
OCTOBER
30-22 Nov Sound Music Festival, Aberdeen
NOVEMBER
5 City of Aberdeen Firework Display
DECEMBER
31 Stonehaven Fireball Festival