With rain forecast all day, I took a 25 minute train ride into Aberdeen where I visited the Maritime Museum and then the Winter Gardens in Duthie Park (especially for my Aunt, Kathleen Duthie).
The park is noted for the David Welch winter gardens with tropical and arid houses which contain the second largest collections of bromeliads and of giant cacti respectively in Great Britain (beaten only by the Eden Project in Cornwall). Originally opened in 1899, the greenhouses had to be demolished and rebuilt after suffering storm damage in 1969.
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