The New Mall

Well, as you might expect from my last post, Aberdeen has a new mall. The train station, which was in terrible need of updating, is now subsumed within a brand new mall and hotel complex. The word on the street is that Aberdeen actually has decent shopping now - who would have guessed! We even have our own Apple store.



There is a TK Max along the back side of the mall (yes, for all you US folks, it is the same as TJ Max), and I made friends with this lamp.



This angle allows you to see the train station entrance on the right and the new hotel on the left. The hotel, a Jury's Inn, attaches to the mall and is one of the first attempts to shift the center of the city back towards the train station. See the hotel website here.



The mall, which isn't all that large, has three coffee shops, two of which are open. The third, a Starbucks, is supposedly going to be the largest in the UK. Random. That is a lot of coffee places for one little mall.



Here is Kelli at one of the coffee shops, a place called the Tinderbox. We liked to go to the one in Glasgow, so it is kind of fun that they have one in Aberdeen now as well.



While we certainly aren't "mall people," it is fun to have some more places to eat. We went to the new burger place and it is really good. It is crazy how much has changed in Aberdeen over the last year or so! Who knows what this next year will hold?