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Breakfast!
Breakfast is brilliant, just ask a Hobbit, they love breakfast so much that given half the chance they’ll have a second breakfast before lunch. While we can’t all spend our mornings lounging about like Frodo, demanding Gandalf magics us up yet another round of French Toast, we can, every now and then, spoil ourselves with…
Tofu Saganaki
Its’s February, it’s cold and rainy, and you’ve exhausted all the good stuff on Netflix, but don’t despair. Here’s a recipe courtesy of one of Greenstone Lodge’s Greek chefs, Christos, to transport you via your mouth to a beach Taverna on either Rhodes or Corfu. So pour yourself a Mythos, slap on the best of…
2024
Your Greenstone Lodge has been updated, but you don’t have to scan us for threats, unless you find the idea of pineapple in a savoury dish threatening, which some do. But what if it was whisky caramelised smoked pineapple? That’s right, Whisky – Caramelised – Smoked – Pineapple. That’s all the best words, all in…
Weather
The Bridge of Orchy weather is very changeable, sometimes impressively so. Neil Finn and the Crowded House lads sang about 4 seasons in one day, well Neil, on a good day we can cycle through 4 seasons in about half an hour. There is a misconception that it’s always raining in the Highlands, if you…
Highland Games
We’d been looking forward to going to a Highland Games since moving up to Bridge of Orchy last November, we’re both big fans of the World’s Strongest Man (The current holder, Tom Stoltman, is a Scot and lovely fella) having tried for a while, we finally managed to find a Highland Games that we could…
Walks From Greenstone Lodge vegan B&B
One of the main bits of advice we could offer anyone visiting Greenstone Lodge is bring sensible footwear, and when we say sensible we don’t mean a nice pair of brogues or just anything that isn’t a 4 inch heal. We mean a solid, sturdy sort of shoe that could take a punch, is ideally…
Easter
Spring is preparing to get sprung here in the Highlands, daffodils are popping up in the garden, and there is almost certainly less snow on the mountain tops. There have been days over the winter that made spring quite impossible to imagine, having never experienced it here we were presuming it was going to be…
