Saturday 11th July Peterhead,crime capital of the NorthEast Alan,our host in Edinburgh and a part time circuit judge taking in Peterhead,had warned us that Peterhead with its maximum security HM Prison,was a town of some criminal repute. It was only 35 miles or so up the coast so we planned the morning in Aberdeen city to take in some shopping as this could be the last occasion for a couple of weeks that we may have time for some retail therapy. The weather today is a grey overcast and it’s not very warm at 12 deg.However this is Aberdeenshire and they say that this coast has the coolest and wettest weather in Scotland and probably in the UK. Finding a park was easy and we walked into the CBD and a shopping mall where M&S was
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