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Scottish Traditional Boat Festival

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If you are interested in beautiful local food, music, ceilidhs, sea shanties, scottish dancing, smoked herrings, or even boats, then this wonderful festival taking place on June 26th and 27th 2010, is a must.

All the events take place round the 500 year old harbur of Portsoy, about 30-40 minutes due east of Findhorn.

Extract from the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival 2010 website:

‘Nestled in the northeast corner of Scotland, between Inverness and Aberdeen, Portsoy’s Scottish Traditional Boat Festival provides a holiday or short break destination with something for everyone – a real family affair.

The 2010 Festival has set its sights on helping bring the great traditional skills of the past into the future for folk of all ages, the young in particular.

The Festival puts a special emphasis on boat building, restoration and sailing, and on associated traditional crafts, music and art. The 2010 programme also includes a Food Fayre, a fun run and a 10K road run – a feast of opportunities for all to see, take part in and enjoy.’



Photos courtesy of the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival website.

Whisky Festival on Speyside starts next week!

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What are you doing next week?

Take a trip to Speyside, where you will find a huge number of Whisky related events at the annual Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival.

If you are staying in Findhorn, then only 10 minutes away Benromach, Brodie Castle, and the Knockomie Hotel are hosting whisky tastings and tours of the distillery (link to Speyside Whisky Festival site).

Benromach stills

In the other direction, towards Elgin and Dufftown (a regular bus service operates from Findhorn, departing 10 paces away from Myrtle Cottage) you will be able to visit and taste the whiskies of 15 or more distilleries on Speyside.

There are so many events still available, and so much going on, that the best thing for you to do right now is click here to go to the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival.

Myrtle Cottage is currently available for rent for the duration of the Festival.

Speyside

Join Myrtle Cottage on Facebook

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I am increasingly finding that Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends, and also services, such as cafes, music events, and products that I like and buy.

So we have created a Facebook page for Myrtle Cottage Findhorn.

Please join us, and become a fan by clicking here.

Findhorn Bay and Culbin Forest

Myrtle Cottage Findhorn – come and stay

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A captivating little cottage, recently renovated to create a simple bright home in the heart of Findhorn.

Original artwork adorns the walls, a Morso woodburning stove warms the living room, and a refurbished kitchen features Habitat units.

Myrtle sleeps 6, in two doubles (one en suite) and one twin.

An enclosed garden, with lawn and outdoor seating areas, allows for privacy, yet is only yards from the back door of the bakery, the village shop and post office, and the cafe.

The two excellent pubs are but a couple of minutes walk, as is the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club and the bay. The golden beaches are a 5 minute stroll, and the Findhorn Foundation a 15 minute walk.

Reminders of the setting for Local Hero* with echoes of Nantucket, todays Findhorn is the second incarnation of a small fishing village and natural harbour (the first was washed away in the 17th Century).

Stone built fishermans cottages nestle together, interwoven with small lanes where kids can cycle around without a care in the world. Empty golden beaches surround the village, on both the Moray Firth and the wonderful expanse of Findhorn Bay where Ospreys fish for salmon. Seals guard the entrance to the bay, while bottlenose dolphins cavort in the Firth.

The ‘Moray Hole’ provides a wonderful microclimate,  protecting Findhorn from the prevailing wet westerly winds.  The Monadliath Mountains in the west and the Grampians to the south take the rainfall, leaving Findhorn with sunshine, little rain and no midgies!

Visitors say they ‘loved the sleeper train up from London’, and sending the kids every morning to ‘the bakery just past the garden gate’.

Myrtle Cottage  is available from £400 per week, or £200 per weekend. See the Availability and Rates page for details.

*In fact Local Hero was filmed at Pennan on the Aberdeenshire coast, about 1 1/2 hours due east of Findhorn.