First, you have to tear yourself away from home - not always easy when you can watch red squirrels, woodpeckers and crested tits on the bird feeders in the garden, cook up a storm in the kitchen, or try your hand at the barbecue or the wood fired pizza oven in the enclosed back garden. Or even just snooze or play board games on the blissfully comfy sofas around the wood burning stove in the living room.

But when you do, you are an easy walk through the woods to the Rothiemurchus Farm Shop and Cafe, Treezone zip wires, tennis courts, bike hire and fishing lochans. The Old Bridge Inn and La Taverna restaurants are a 15 minute stroll towards Aviemore, with the centre of the village itself another five minutes' walk beyond that.

And around Aviemore and in the wider Cairngorms National Park there's so much to do that you're spoilt for choice - browse our digital guidebook for insider tips and personal recommendations for all of these:

Hill walking

Mountain Biking

Birdwatching

Wildlife watching

Zip Wires

Tennis

Horse riding

Swimming

Watersports - at Loch Morlich or Loch Insh

Kayak, sailing, gorge walking, rafting, paddleboarding

Wintersports

Skiing, sledging

Clay pigeon shooting

Golf - These iconic Highland Scottish golf courses are all within a hour's drive from the Green Lodge:

• Spey Valley
• Pitlochry
• Kingussie,
• Newtonmore
• Grantown
• Boat of Garten
• Castle Stuart
• Kessock Bridge

Highland Wildlife Zoo

Reindeer Centre

Folk Museum

Steam Train

Loch an Eilein Pottery

Laundry Gallery