Aviemore

Aviemore is situated in the Cairngorms National Park. To be honest there is very little of photographic or architectural merit. The town has become a centre for Winter sports, and really expanded after the opening of the first ski lift in the Cairngorms in 1961. It proved to be a real challenge to find anything worth photographing. I have probably failed, as can be seen from this set of images! It is not a place that appeals to me one little bit, however the ride on the bus from Grantown-on-Spey, and the train journey back to Inverness makes the day out worthwhile. So O.K. just to pass through. 

This restaurant sums up the sort of tourist market Aviemore caters for.  

Fresh snow had fallen that morning, and continued to do as we later encountered a blizzard and a 'white out' on the train to Inverness.

One of the few older buildings in Aviemore. The Cairngorm Hotel.

Aviemore - Highland Resort. 

There are plenty of hotels, this one being owned by the MacDonalds group. 

Snow on the Cairngorms.