Breakfast
The Pines: Gammon steaks, streaky bacon, pork sausages and scrambled eggs. Coffee and juice.
Morning tea
High Street Merchants: Coffee with Orange & Date Scone and raspberry jam.
Lunch
Muchrach House (Dulnain Bridge): salmon gravlax, rare Scottish sirloin with whiskey sauce; accompanied by highlands gin and tonic water.
Dinner
The Pines: Shoulder of lamb, roasted with local root vegetables; served with a South African Cabernet.
Digestif
The Garth Hotel (Grantown-on-Spey).
This may sound like we did nothing but eat and drink all day. If it does, that’s only because we did. And I’m not sorry, not sorry at all.
I might be more sorry on Thursday when we trek up mountains, but that’s ages away yet.


