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,…

On the way to what would be our final hotel for the trip, and as we worked our way back to the real world, we stopped at Dalwhinnie, which is one of the highest distilleries in Scotland but more importantly, they do whiskey tastings which…

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…

The great weather held out as we moved north stopping at a couple more distilleries along the way, and a visit at the famous Loch Ness. A massive lake and cute little town called Fort Augustus just to the south of it. The towns only…

An early rise 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 a very nice place and we couldn’t dispute the tranquil nature of it with the sheep outside the…

With so many distilleries on the island we didn’t have time to visit all of them. But we managed to visit quite a few distilleries on Islay. Caol Ila Roll down the road to what looks like a scenic little village then around a corner…

After a restless night sleeping in the 400-year hotel on beds that felt like they were 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 the…

Scotland! It’s a lot like Ireland but also very different. Yes, both countries have accents to us Americans, and both have a love of whiskey or whisky if you prefer. But when it comes to Whiskey (I spell it with an ey), there is a…