Belgrade Day 2: Breakfast
After a restless night on a bed of solid rock that smelled of cigarette smoke, we woke to showers with a shower that was a spray nozzle without a wall mount to hang it from. Basically showering involved holding the nozzle to get wet, setting…
Belgrade Day 1: Just Trying to Get There
What the fuck was I thinking with a 5:00 AM flight? A 5 o’clock flight meant that I had to leave my house at 3:00 AM. This was 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning in December from Dublin, Ireland. Which means my taxi phone app…
Europeans Annoying Football Comments
I haven’t blogged in a while about living in Ireland, so here is one on Europeans and football. The conversation will usually start with someone saying that football should be played with the feet. In a statement about soccer and American football. “What you guys…
Scotland Distillery Tour: 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 Distillery Tour Day 8: Dalwhinnie and DoubleTree
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…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Dufftown
It wasn’t intentional but we managed to time our whiskey trip to land at the same time as the whiskey 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 Distillery Tour: Speyside Whiskey 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: Loch Ness
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…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Sheep and The Ferry To The Highlands
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…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Islay Distilleries
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…
