We all need a reminder of summer today! Road Trip DashCam - Montrose to Balmoral Castle, Scotland
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- As we are currently stuck in an intense spell of horrible weather (well, here in Scotland anyway), I thought it would be nice to post a bit of dashcam footage I had sitting on an old SD card gathering dust on my desk. So here it is - a drive from home in Montrose to Balmoral Castle, and all on a beautiful summer's day. I hope you enjoy the drive :)
Music courtesy of epidemicsound.com ('Steps to Mindfulness')
(sorry, I know I've used this track before, it's not easy to find loop able tracks for videos like these)
Map courtesy of Google Maps
Hi, I’m Steve, a travel reviewer from Scotland. Join me on my adventures as I discover my own country, often visiting places for the first time, so hopefully it's as much of an eye-opener for you as it is for me! Don't expect expert opinion, just a very honest journey of discovery. Sometimes featuring my intrepid sidekick Alicja, sometimes featuring adventures beyond the borders of Scotland. Enjoy!
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Dear Steve
Thanks
I enjoyed it to see a nice part of my beloved SCOTLAND
Grts from the Netherlands
Thanks so much mate!
Absolutely wonderful drive, peaceful, mesmerizing and soothing. Plus what perfect weather for it all too, thank you!!!
Thanks Raymond, days like that are a distant memory now :D
All I can say is, WOW! After watching your drive to Balmoral I am in awe and relaxed. The scenery, the weather, the music, and the two old buses. We are planning a trip to the UK maybe next year. My other half has never been, me, I grew up in Lancashire, till I was 16. Since then it's been the USA. We were thinking of traveling as far as Edinburgh, but might have to add the drive to Balmoral into our travel plans. Thanks Steve, for this awesome video. Scotland is amazing!
I remember this beautiful scenic rout Steve, I believe this is what everyone needs just now, I have emergency dental work ahead of me 🥴 it would be wonderful if this could be transferred to my dentist ceiling! Oh! to be in Scotland where my cares would melt away, thank you 🙏 for this mesmerising tranquil journey to “Balmoral” sad now that our dear Queen Elizabeth is no longer with us! great memories for me of a time long past Steve, blessings to you and Alicja from a dismal wet & windy Derby’s country side, 😊🥀🤗 “Slainte” 🥃
Wishing you a speedy recovery, just remember it’ll be over soon and you’ll feel so much better for it! Thanks as always for your lovely comment 😊
@@steve-marsh Thank you Steve, I’ve not had a lot of luck with dentists over the years, so I’m quite fearful of them! luckily I have found a great mercury free one, I was unfortunate to have mercury poisoning some 25years ago, so it helps when someone knows what your talking about!
I have diabetic neuropathy and these days cold = pain. And it's real painful out in the Puget Sound area lately. Thanks for the ray of sunshine man.
Ah you're so welcome! My dad gets that too
You don't know how much I needed that after the stressful week I've had. Thanks Steve, that really hit the spot!
My weather app said you had some heavy rains headed your way. Stay safe and dry!
So glad it did the trick! Aye, it's horrible here and not moving, stuck indoors hence the opportunity to edit this one :)
''The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.'' (Henry Clay). A lovely drive to watch and some really relaxing music (almost too relaxing - I nearly nodded off) - just hit the spot after a long, dark, dank, windy week! Thanks for posting this Steve
Beautiful comment, and nice to see my videos are still sending people to sleep :D
That was a lovely relaxing video Steve. What a beautiful scenic drive, with a lovely piece of music in the background. Not got to Balmoral yet but is on the bucket list for the not too distant future,thanks for the glimpse. Stay safe you two.
Cheers Bob! Yet to actually visit the castle ourselves yet, but if the drive there is anything to go by, it'll be spectacular!
Been there have video of a Ferrari meet up that happened while there.
Looks great when the sun shines (and that blue sky!!)
It's a rare treat :D
We love your videos, Steve and are watching old ones you’ve done. Hello from Vancouver Island, BC 🇨🇦. Great to see Ballater where my husband’s ancestors came from. In 2015 we stayed in Ballater for a few days during Victoria days. it was lovely to see the Main Street again. Love Scotland and Orkney and hope to go back one day. ❤️🇨🇦
Beautiful day to walk. No wonder the Royals love it here. So easy to get lost in your thoughts.
A beautiful day for a beautiful drive…thank you 🤗. I have always wanted to visit Scotland and hopefully one day I will. Thank you Steve for being the best travel agent . Ireland is the closest I have been to Scotland. 🤗❤️
Steve, you've done us proud - this certainly is a welcome sight in such a dreich spell... All the more so for the like of me who can't drive and for whom any drive anywhere is such a rare treat! Fettercairn certainly looks like the kind of place I'd like to explore... I remember reading about the Cairn o' Mount Road in The Courier when I was about 12 - and now, 46 years later, I have seen what it looks like for the first time! I was at Braemar a few times as a child, and I did a day trip by train and bus from Edinburgh to Ballater about 13 years ago and, was then driven south along the A97 from Huntly to the A93 and Perth a couple of years later, but that's about the limit of my experience of that part of the world - mainly owing to the lack of public transport, and never being fit enough to cycle! So, many thanks, my friend - and should you ever feel like doing any more of these drives, I for one would love to see them.
Thanks so much for that Paul! I tell you what, drives like this certainly give ideas for future videos as well, really want to have a closer look at some of those fabulous wee villages!
Lovely. My paternal grandparents retired to Melgum Lodge by Tarland village just north of Aboyne. Thanks for this nostalgic journey!
Steve the villages and towns were lovely but the green fields trees and mountains against the vivid blue skies perfect thanks for taking me along on the drive😉
Thanks Linda, it's a wonderful route along the backroads :)
Just lovely!
Beautiful drive Steve, music is perfect. I hope you go back and visit some of those wee villages (bring your camera!) and share those on UA-cam. Very Very Very Nice!
Stunning, speechless. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful drive Steve, thanks for taking us along. I already decided to take the wife and kids to Scotland next spring for a holiday as your Scotland videos really made me want to visit Scotland again. Have driven the road from Cairnryan to Hull many times when going to The Netherlands where I was born and raised but I really want a proper holiday in Scotland now. ^^
Oh I wish you weather like this!
Beautiful. I hope you're both okay up there today, it sounds like the weather is pretty crazy.
It's a lot calmer now, the only problem is being desperate to get out somewhere to record a video :D Thanks Catherine!
Thanks, I needed that! It's sunny, but cold here in Portland Oregon! Going do some urban hiking! Love your adventures!
Enjoy! Ahh Portland, I have happy memories of that awesome city!
Enjoyed the road trip. In addition to being a great "spring" break, it reminds us that all those little towns not usually visited by tourists are beautiful, fascinating and deserving of attention. Get off the tourist path and just wander the roads.
Loved the video. So peaceful. I thought of Queen Elizabeth's last drive. Thank you.
Yeah, very true, I remember watching it on TV, a beautiful and fitting route for Elizabeth's last drive!
Steve you make me miss Scotland so much! Driving the back roads are some of our favorite memories. A few more years to go before we can go back. Please keep these type of videos coming. Thank you
Cheers Russ! A lot to be said for taking the slow road sometimes eh? :)
@@steve-marsh Always, not sometimes! The best places to eat are always one street back,and the best roads to travel are these. Long may it continue!
I second that sentiment. Miss it very much.
Beautiful, beautiful. so soothing. Thank you!
The bus you followed is one of the buses that my granda would have worked on, I spotted "Alexander and son" on the rear of the bus and that's where my granda worked...at Larbert where the main garage was. Even after 65 years I can remember catching those type of buses when he took me fishing in Loch Earn. Falkirk to Callander, Callender to Loch Earn. How the memories come flooding back with the glimpse of the rear of a bus!!
Such a lovely, tranquil video Steve. It's great to see the roads of Scotland 'live'. I spend so much time on Google maps looking at street view planning trips. Maybe one day I'll actually commit to the drive north!
The buses you passed were lovely......a reminder of a bygone era.
Aye, those buses were a bonus! And that whole trip was a reminder it’s sometimes nice to take the slow road :)
@@steve-marsh Oh very much so. Sometimes when I venture up to the north, it's nice to take the A470 through mid Wales rather than the monotonous M5/M6 (I'm based just outside Cardiff)
That was really lovely. It's so nice to be able to look at the scenery as a passenger. I am always the driver usually and that can be annoying at times.
A wonderful wee drive so peaceful and calming balmoral is lovely x
It makes you look forward to summer!
Thanks so much for posting this Steve. I have been to Balmoral on these roads quite a few times . I also had relations living in Hillside. This brought back so many happy memories. Alovely day out. Keep well and safe. James.
So glad to bring you some familiar places James :)
A great day for a beautiful drive, we are so lucky to live in this area, and after the weather we have had today, it was lovely to see blue skies
Aye, it's been a bit crazy eh! Thanks Marcia!
Great..memories of Sunday drives with the parents, and occasionally a sister or two.
Haha same here!
Oh that was really a lovely " wee hurl ", I saw on the News last night Balantar was flooded, shame.
It was lovely having you take us to see this part of Scotland I haven't been to.
Thanks again Steve from me in Irvine .
Oof Grace we’ve been getting it bad up this way, hope alls okay with you and you have a lovely weekend!
The Fettercairn to Banchory road brings back many memories from when I worked in Edzell. Don't ever remember in being as sunny as that , ice and snow yes. Thanks so much for that really enjoyed it
Cheers Alister! Wanting to go for a walk in Edzell woods when this weather clears!
Some love towns you go through on that trip! I’ll have to remember about that Transportation Museum. Thanks for taking us along!
Cheers Erin! Those back roads are the way to go :)
Love a road trip video.I,m lucky enough to have driven there too and on to Braemar over 30yrs ago. A beautiful part of the world.
Cheers mate, glad you’ve experienced the drive too :)
Some fantastic memories of Ballater and the surrounding areas that I used to cycle, thank you!
Good work cycling in those parts!
@@steve-marsh In the 1980s I was the only one! Look what I've started ;)
Beautiful drive through lovely places. I think of the late queen. She was a great one. 👑
An early treat, very welcoming during this terrible weather today. Time for a day indoors. Stay safe you two
Thanks John! Plenty time to edit with all this indoor time! :D
I needed this today warmed me up thinking of summer and a trip up to the Highlands 👍cheers Steve 😊
Cheers Stuart!
Ok , Steve you out did yourself on this video. It’s nice and we appreciate your out of country videos but the ones you do locally are on another level. Nothing beats a van video through the surrounding country right out of your back door! The only traffic jam I saw were people on bicycles and lovely old buses. This video was hypnotic with the scenery and music. Just well done. Do we maybe see you guys on some fat tired electric mountain bikes some day? Could take a load off those feet and knees! Anyway, stay safe.
Oh Robert, it was a pleasure to be in those traffic jams :D Hey, we'd LOVE electric bikes, the only problem is we don't have anywhere to safely store them. What we'd do for a wee garage! :)
Very nice. You can see why our Queen liked it so much.
So true - they weren't daft picking that as a holiday home :)
Indeed, a grand day out!
I think these are my favorite trips with you. Beautiful countryside and villages. I try to imagine living in one of the villages. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Doris! I could quite happily live anywhere on that route!
Ach Steve you did it again , fae 6000 miles away you took me hame. Used to camp in Glen Dye , before you crossed the bridge into Aboyne shoulda had a wee run into Glen tanner and seen the church there it has a turf roof and only holds about 20 of a congregation. Used to be stationed at Victoria Barracks in Ballater, home of the Castle Guard. Thanks for the memories my friend.
I drove a good chunk of that road early on a Sunday morning in July this , I had the top down on my MX5 warm sun beating down - pure bliss and watching this lovely film brings it all back - here's to a long hot 2023 and a chance to explore more of this beautiful landscape I'm lucky enough to live in - Steve - Thanks so much!
Ahhh sounds perfect mate! Top down is a good option to have :) Hopefully all this bad weather means a good summer to come (although that's a long way off yet!)
I envy you Colin, wish I was there, Dave, stuck in USA.
...thanks for the 'on-the-road' meditation - indeed a good reminder of Summer 💛😍
Just the perfect video to watch on a grey morning. Loved seeing so many cyclists enjoying the quieter roads. We done Steve.
Aye, they are gluttons for punishment seeking out those hills :)
Beautiful, relaxing and the music was so lovely, thank you
Thanks for coming along Patricia!
Excellent video Steve.
Beautiful little village's on the way.
Looks like you had a good time.
Thanks Tim! Aye, it's sometimes nice to take the slow road and enjoy the journey :)
Another great video, Steve. Thank you. As an aside I downloaded the album containing the beautiful music on your train journey around Scotland's cities. Wonderful. Take care and keep the videos coming.
Superb John! Cheers mate
That Aberdeen bus you passed (2nd one) looking great for 92 years old!
Was it really?! Wow!
Was on most that route last week coming back from Arbroath to Banchorshire :)
Haha no way! :)
@@steve-marsh Yeah was down for a big Keter garden box from the guy that specializes in them down there (fbook) and also a couple miles from there Letham Grange for an Oak piece of furniture. was through Montrose on the way down via Laurencekirk and brechin Edzell on the return route
I love this song. I’ve been able to find all of your music on Apple save one or two songs. I’m making an Apple Music playlist from all of your videos. Keep up the good work!
Some incredible scenery there Steve, I canneee wait for summer! 🥰
You and me both! :)
So relaxing and interesting, alovely drive ,music amazing,
Another superb video Steve with nice relaxing music in the background!!!!!
Thanks David!
Steve thank you so much very emotional when our beloved Queen Elizabeth the second pass through balmoral well done a beautiful video Paul in kent
Thanks so much Paul! A fitting final drive for the Queen!
Steve, thanks for an amazing vid that took me back 15 maybe 20 years ago when I stayed with friends in Ballater a couple of times. At 19.50 mins, where you overtook the the last bus, I fished the lake on the right for trout. The only thing I caught was the fence that bordered it! I went to the Coilacriech Inn 23.48mins a few times. Its an amazing little pub with formica topped tables and bar. Wonderful hospitality. Early evening you would often have some of the gillies from the Balmoral estate popping in for a pint. The pub also operated the single petrol pump opposite, not too many single pump petrol stations about 😀. Thanks again for the memories.
Ahh I wish some places were still like that, great memories! Thanks so much for sharing and glad to post a video with so many familiar places! Loved the fishing tales :D
@@steve-marsh Cheers mate, Happy memories indeed. If your ever through Ballater again pop into Sheridan's butchers, Balmoral's butchers with Royal Warrants. they have some wonderful pies and Haggis 😀.
Steve your videos are very informative and Educational well done young man😊
Absolutely beautiful.
That was a nice surprise thank you.
Absolutely charming I could have watched that for hours..
Loved the old buses 👍😍
Aye those buses were an unexpected bonus!
Beautiful weather, scenery, and quiet roads. So enjoyed that.
Thanks Helen! Yeah, good point, I hadn't picked up on how quiet it was!
Very different here in Sussex, beautiful county but roads a nightmare .
Beautiful scenery. I found the music hypnotizing - can't get it out of my head. Help!!!
Haha cheers Peter!
Scotland is so Beautiful. We have only ever visited the west coast . Fell in love with a small fishing port from seeing it on facebook. We travelled from Italy to see it. Your video was so relaxing and has made us want to visit your beautiful east coast of Scotland. Thankyou .
Thanks Sarah! I think it's hard to disagree that 'west is best' but there are some absolute gems in the east coast as well (and the secret is that we get less midges on the east coast too) :)
Really enjoyed this video. The scenery was great and so nice to see the sun again.
Aye I think most of us in the northern hemisphere needed a wee blast of sun, thanks mate!
Lovely - a real tonic for a miserable day here in NE Ireland
Ah you've got the weather too eh!?
Stunning Steve. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Kenneth!
Balmoral is a great day out. I take the dog and the kids there from Aberdeen regularly for some fresh air, and, of course, a scone or two!
Oh nice! Cannae beat a gid scone :)
Soooooooooo relaxing my favourite pastime either 🏍🚵♂️🚗👌
Thanks so much :)
Stunning, peaceful, perfect music, perfect Weather .....just soooo relaxing
Thanks so much Heather!
Enjoyed that Thanks Steve inevitibly thoughts of the late Queen
Yeah absolutely! Thanks so much!
Lovely drive which includes the first of three great hill roads between Angus and Caithness. 1) Cairn O' Mount. 2) A right turn at Ballater takes you to the Lecht and Tomintoul then on the Grantown on Spey and Inverness. 3) A short distance past Dingwall lies Struie Hill which has at its height en route to Bonar Bridge, what imo is the best view in all of Scotland. Continuing North to Wick I would once have included as a number 4, Berriedale Braes just South of Dunbeath, but road straightening some 20 plus years ago has taken the fun out of that short stretch of hill road. Set off early on a Summer morning and that is quite some drive!
I sense a video on this! Thanks for the info!
Great video, you got a braw day for it, feel all relaxed now after watching it.
Cheers Craig! :)
Hello steve great video i remember them cream and blue buses at the start of the vid going through denny where i was brought up the went to falkirk and stirling 🏴🏴🏴❤️👍
I loved following along Steve.
Cheers Del! Fun to take the back roads occasionally:)
Thank you. That was amazing. I live in Australia, but have family in Laurencekirk, Stonehaven, Aberdeen, and around Fraserburgh and Peterhead. I live in Australia and we haven't been able to travel due to covid and family health issues. I've travelled along many of those roads, and hope to again, one day. In the meanwhile, that video is the next best thing to being there.
So glad to bring you some familiar places Graeme. I really need to do more of these dash cam videos, they strike a chord with so many people around the world. All the best to you!
This is why you are my favourite UA-camr.Thank you so much for your content. I loved the Seattle trip too. I will be a Patreon once I get my finances sorted. Keep up the good work
Patron or not, I truly appreciate your support mate!
Thanks Steve. I knew I would enjoy this video. I opened Google Maps on my other screen and followed your progress all the way. Great video - a "like" from me. Thank you.
Thanks Chris! What a perfect day it was! And it wasn't until I started editing I realised how quiet the roads were :)
Seeing as I did chores in a feel like temp of -21C this morning, I need more than a reminder of summer. Lovely.
Haha good effort! I'm not sure I've ever felt -21C!!!
what a lovely way to spend a day, miss the greenery of home,,,,,, brian d.
Cheers Brian, wish we had that weather today 😆
I always thought that England had all the picturesque villages but your video has shown that Scotland can hold its own with some stunning wee villages just beautiful and what a cracking day for your road trip.
So very beautiful there, so green! And I loved the old buses! Thank you for taking us along , although I did miss the banter and the usual search for food, along with the happiness of when some is found lol.
Haha yes, the belly does dictate many trips :D Back to those shortly...:)
Lovely & what a beautiful day. The music was very atmospheric but then it started to make me feel melancholy! I looked up Balmoral, what a shame the Victorians demolished the old castle. They went round demolishing anything old, we no longer have an Elizabethan manor house here for that reason. 😢 You're furnishing me with such a huge bucket list & I'm 65 😬 🤣
Trees are green....
Yes, but which green do you want them?
Scotland demonstrates that trees are green, but oh how many shades of green.
Stunning road trip, just what I needed on this dull November evening.
Glad it did the trick Rob! I swear there are certain shades of green only available in Scotland :)
@@steve-marsh How very true 🙂
At a very troubled time in my family this video offered a wonderful bit of escapism for half an hour, beautifully supplemented by the tranquil background music. Just the pick me up needed! Many thanks.
All the best to you Bob, your comment alone made it worth to film, edit and post!
This was truly stunning, we were only in Fettercairn 2 weeks ago, for a BBQ /birthday party, and we were staying in St Cyrus. And what a lovely drive over to Balmoral. Had the privilege of playing the organ in Crathie Kirk on a visit, was even invited back for the Sunday service but was not staying that long - could have been playing for Her Majesty!! Loving the videos, thanks Steve
Your no wrong! Gale 8 and absolutely p*****g it doon up in Orkney theday!
Crazy weather, and it just seems to be hanging about for days!
Steve: this is just wonderful! When Scotland's weather behaves like this it is paradise. I used to live near Fettercairn and this drive up through Deeside is one I used to do every week on my way up to work in the Highlands. This brings back many lovely memories. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Robin! Cheers!
Beautiful Steve … I live on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District and it reminds me so much of that 😀
Yeah Tim, some gorgeous routes down you way!
Excellent video! Take care and stay warm!
Cheers Bill!
Bloomin' marvellous 😄
Cheers!
Yes, the perfect antidote to this miserable weather. I am stuck in my house outside Atlanta, and it is just chucking it down....so I was getting restless for another roadtrip, and voila, suddenly I see this. 😎 Oh, and I found the soundtrack on Spotify too.
Nice one! So glad to help pass some time when the weather isn't great :)
Hi Steve, we had burrito's while watching the drive up to Balmoral. It was good, so was the video. Very relaxing and shifted my thoughts to a more pleasant location. Lot's of sheep, no coo's eh? Wow, Montrose has a Starbucks, big business moving in! Take care!
There's no stopping Montrose now :D Hope you enjoyed the burritos! One of my favourite foods!
Watching this between Christmas and New Year.. Is that sunshine? I seem to remember it. Lovely trip, you passed through a few places definitely worthy of a little video of their own.
Hi Steve.
I thoroughly enjoyed that video of your drive from Montrose to Balmoral castle.
The route up showed off Scotlands 🏴beautiful countryside 💞
Your choice of music was calming and fitting for that flawless video.
Loved the old buses 💞
Thanks for sharing !!👍👍
Cheers David! Glad you enjoyed it :)
What a sweet summer's day drive! Sorry to hear about the Starbucks in Montrose.
Haha it had to happen!
This was an awesome video, traveled all of these roads and a few years ago done a tour and lunch in the castle on a Wowcher deal for ten pounds lol. No wonder tourists love coming to Scotland the scenery is something else. Great memories, well done.💞
Thanks Margaret!
Stunning scenery. I am someone who suffers from time to time with bouts of depression so beautiful scenery like the one you are showing is truly uplifting. Thankyou!
Hey Colin, thanks so much mate! Really glad it hit the spot :)