West through Whiskey Country
After spending the morning organising accomodation for the coming long weekend, we finally left Anni’s place and made our way west through Speyside. Speyside is the region between the highlands and the east coast and is where around 70% of the world’s Scotch whiskey is produced.
Two of the biggest distilleries are located in and around Dufftown – a place strangely famous for it’s whiskey rather than its beer, despite what Simpsons fans may have expected. Read more…
1 comment August 28th, 2007
Just outside Edinburgh we stopped in at the small town of Bo’ness to see the steam railway and Scottish Railway Museum. We’d arrived a little early however and while we waited for the train to get rolling we visited the nearby auto museum to pass the time.
Dad and Sue’s much-anticipated trip to the UK finally became a reality and they arrived at Heathrow in good shape considering they’d just come off a 23 hour flight from Sydney.
