{"id":359,"date":"2025-02-06T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2025-02-07T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:59:56","slug":"aberlour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/2025\/02\/06\/aberlour\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberlour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bright sunny day and forgetting the state of my ankle I thought I&#8217;d climb Ben Rinnes for the first time, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morayways.org.uk\/routes\/ben-rinnes\/\">the easy route<\/a>. It was a beautiful drive on new routes but then I got lost and ended up getting lunch in Aberlour. I realised walking by the Spey was a much better plan and limped along towards Craigellachie. There is something about the power of the Spey that is just enchanting &#8211; it&#8217;s an amazing river to sit by. I visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/thespeysidewhisky.com\/\">Speyside whisky shop<\/a> where you can buy a dram either to drink there or take out, then headed home via Dufftown and Glenfiddich distillery&#8217;s gleaming copper pagoda tops. I checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicenvironment.scot\/visit-a-place\/places\/balvenie-castle\/\">Balvenie Castle<\/a>, an impressive ruin which is open to viewings again from March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bright sunny day and forgetting the state of my ankle I thought I&#8217;d climb Ben Rinnes for the first time, via the easy route. It was a beautiful drive on new routes but then I got lost and ended up getting lunch in Aberlour. I realised walking by the Spey was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[110,113,111,112,109],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursion","tag-aberlour","tag-balvenie-castle","tag-craigellachie","tag-dufftown","tag-whisky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}