Hi Julie and David,
Have just been visiting your Aviemore site and found it brought back great
memories of fabulous holidays and long weekends we spent there ourselves.
Our first encounter with Aviemore was in 1973,when as we were touring
Scotland we decided to spend the day here. We loved the place so much
that we returned two or three times a year until the renovations started.

On our first holiday there we stayed on the Speyside caravan park in a small
un-insulated caravan with no running water and no mod-cons,
but it was fabulous. From our caravan your senses were greeted by the
aroma of the nearby fish and chip shop “The Happy Haggis”.  We spent a lot
of evenings queuing outside for our “fish suppers” which ranked as the
best in Scotland.

When our daughter Pauline came along we decided that she too would enjoy
Aviemore and that she did.  She met santa, visited the North Pole and
enjoyed the swimming pool and ice-rink. Many are the stories we still recall
about a place so dear to us, so much that we decided to call our house ABH MOR,
the gaelic root of Aviemore,

Ronnie Gage
Leven
Fife

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speyside caravan site 1972   speyside caravan site 1982   The Snowmen - guardians of the North Pole 1980   The big red lion outside the craft centre at Santa Claus Land.1980   How many faces appeared here in front of the race track? 1980

Daughter Pauline with the real Santa Claus   Inside Santa Claus land near the miniature railway.1980   The childrens play area in front of the ice rink   The craft shops outside Santas,where you could buy handmade candles, woollen tammies or rock quartz from the Cairngorms.   The steam roller at Santa Claus Land

The Aviemore steamie which still runs today. The train does regular passenger runs between Aviemore and Boat of Garten..Taken around 1979.   A visit to Aviemore was not complete without a visit to the nearby heather centre.1982