Aberteen dream

We travel seven miles north to Aberdeen, Scotland's third largest city, famed for its granite architecture and busy seaport, arriving at Aberdeen Science Centre.

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Despite Amelia enduring an enforced digital detox when the wi-fi password fails, the dozens of exhibits keep her immersed as we flit between zones featuring stop-motion animation, calorie-calculating cycling, football target practice, spacecraft piloting and a humanoid robot. Just like Farm Stop, the Science Centre has sussed out that maximum interactivity is the key to holding any kid's attention.

The BrewDog Kennels mini-hotel apartments at Castlegate is the base for our first night and, to Amelia's tacit approval, our suite is kitted out like a cool teenage bedroom with LED slogans, a turntable to play a boxful of vinyl and an acoustic guitar perched in the corner. Amelia chastises me for taking a photo of her strumming it in landscape mode rather than portrait, which I'm informed is a prehistoric practice that doesn't complement her social media posting needs.

BrewDog became one of Aberdeenshire’s most famous exports by being nonconformists and mavericks in the craft beer field.

It’s an ideology more typically found in the street art scene, another sector in which the region's embrace of creative ambition is helping to attract new audiences.