We took a late November 2014 day trip to see the quaint seaside villages of Gardenstown and Pennan.
The quaint village of Pennan, Scotland hugs the North Sea. It's hard to believe that such beautiful places exist!
Only one fishing boat left in the Pennan harbour.
A dark and stormy morning in Pennan.
Tucked in behind the village was a remarkable cottage. Amazing! I want to live here! There was a small inn in Pennan (closed) that we vowed to stay in come Spring.
We drove along the narrow country lanes of north Aberdeenshire.
We followed the road signs to down a steep hill to Gardenstown.
I loved these Gardenstown fishermens' sheds.
Gardenstown is still a fishing community, but most of its income now comes from tourism and movie production (the TV series The Barons was filmed here).
All of Gardenstown's streets ran down to the sea.
A picture perfect seaside village.
We walked out to the edge of Gardenstown to take in the view looking East - before returning to the town for a drink.
The pub company was good at the 18th century Garden Arms Hotel.
We drove further west along the north coast to McDuff, where we stopped for a late lunch/early dinner. It was a wonderful day on the stormy Scottish coast.