Searching for The Best Steak in Dublin
Since moving to Ireland I have been in search of the best steak in Dublin, which unfortunately is hard to do. They have great quality meat but most chefs and cooks don’t know how to prepare it. Most of the time it is overcooked, dry,…
A Sad Day for America
Growing up in Spokane a conservative part of Washington State my political views leaned towards the conservative side of the spectrum. In defense of that statement, during my lifetime the Republicans in office weren’t that bad. Sure, one was a bit of an idiot, but…
Scotland The Final Drink Count
I’ll skip over days nine and ten as they were spent those days relaxing around the hotel, seeing a few sites, and getting messages and sleeping in. The whiskey trip as a whole was a success in the achieved goal of visiting numerous Scottish distilleries,…
Scotland Day 8
On the way to what would be our final hotel for the trip as we worked out way back to the real world, we stopped at Dalwhinnie Which is one of the highest distilleries in Ireland but more importantly they do whisky tastings which are…
Dufftown
It wasn’t intentional but we managed to time our whisky trip to land at the same time as the whisky festival in a small town called Dufftown. This elicited a few jokes from me as I imitated Duffman while visiting Dufftown and driving past the…
Scotland Speyside Whisky Stops
It was a busy day of distillery stops with the first one right down the street from the hotel. Well it would have been if we had gone in the right direction from the hotel instead of the wrong one. But once it was sorted…
Scotland Distillery Tour Day 5
Fort Augustus The great weather held out as we moved north stopping at a couple more distilleries along the way and visited the famous Loch Ness. A really massive lake and cute little town called Fort Augustus just to the south of it. The towns only…
To The Ferry and the Highlands
An early rising for breakfast as we headed off for what would be a nearly 4hr ferry ride to the mainland. The B&B as B&Bs go was very nice place and we couldn’t dispute the tranquil nature of it with the sheep outside the window,…
Islay Distilleries
Caol Ila Roll down the road to what looks like a scenic little village then around a corner to the distillery that is an industrial complex. Owned by one of my favorite companies Diageo we bought a small bottle of the Whiskey and were on…
Scotland Day 2 – Driving to Islay
After a restless night sleeping in the 400-year hotel on beds that felt like they were also made of 400-year-old stone, we went down for an early breakfast. We didn’t go down because we wanted an early start but because it was only served between…
