Logie Steading – Books, Shops and Cake
A few hours.
The route
Logie Steading is an old model farm in the valley of the River Findhorn, its sandstone courtyard now home to a secondhand bookshop, an art gallery and small independent shops.
Its café is the reason many people come, with good coffee, fine cakes and lunches made from local produce. It's an easy, unhurried morning, lovely in any weather.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
The nearest of ours is Culbin Edge, 6 miles away. Sleeps 4; next free Mon 9 Nov to Wed 11 Nov.
The day
Logie
An hour browsing the old farm courtyard in the Findhorn valley, then a long sit over coffee and cake.
About two hours
Logie Steading
An attraction
Logie Steading is south of Forres off the A940 and the B9007, signed from the road. Park in the car park at the steading. You walk in through an archway under a green-domed clock tower, into a cobbled courtyard of old farm buildings. The secondhand bookshop spills its shelves out onto the covered walkway, and there's an art gallery, a whisky and wine shop, and makers selling homewares, textiles and jewellery. The steading opens every day from 10am, though each shop keeps its own hours. There's a playpark for children outside.
The Cafe at Logie Steading
Coffee and cake
The café is in the courtyard, with good coffee, fine cakes and lunches made with local produce, and seats inside and out. It opens every day from 10am to 4pm, but only Thursday to Sunday in January and February. Children are welcome and dogs are allowed, and the way in is step-free. If it's full, Cafe 1496 on the High Street in Forres, a short drive north, serves breakfast all day until 3.30pm.
If it rains
Rain does no harm: the shops open off covered walkways round the courtyard, and the café is warm inside.
Worth a detour
- Sueno's Stone
After the café, it's a short drive north to Sueno's Stone, on the eastern edge of Forres. It's a Pictish cross-slab over six metres tall, kept behind glass, carved with a great cross on one face and rows of horsemen and soldiers in battle on the other. It's free and always there to see.
Cafe 1496, a café in Forres.