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My Heart is in the Highlands
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Morning on the grounds of Drummuir Castle
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Just beautiful
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From the Garden
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Pre-Dinner Falconry on the Castle Grounds
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“The Professor” with the ultimate symbol of Freedom
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I feel like Harry Potter
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Our Piper for Dinner
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Piping in the Haggis
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The address to the Haggis
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Stewart at Royal Lochnagar explaining Malting process
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Spirit Still at Lochnagar… It’s wee…
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Tasting the fruits of labor at Royal Lochnagar
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Lunch with Suzy and Alan at Tannochbrae… Recipients of the Loch and K(e)y Award
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Charlie, Lia and Dave enjoying the spread at Tannochbrae
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Alan carving Racks of Local Lamb… Absolutely delicious
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In the belly of the beast; Mash room at Roseisle
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The Professor; at the heart. The Still House at Roseisle.
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Final days, arriving at Drummuir Castle to unwind before the journey back across the pond home.
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After checking in at the castle, I stretched my legs with a walk around the castle grounds. This shot is of some of the many types of Thistle growing wildy around Drummuir.
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I also stumbled across these wild red raspberries. They were slightly tart; magic.
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Drummuir Castle’s library, the Loch and K(e)y travellers spent many hours studying.
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Charlie tasting the worts at Glenrothes
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A Glenrothes cooper working his craft
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The “Inner Sanctum” at The Glenrothes
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The Glenrothes in it’s various incarnations through time
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Still House at Glendronach
- A Parliment of Rooks
So no pics for day 3. We boarded a ferry in Portig on Islay headed for the mainland Kennacraig on the Mull of Kintyre. From Kennacraig we had a 5 hour drive to Huntley in the east Highlands. A very long uneventful day but worth it for the time spent on Islay.
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Randall doing malt Angels on the malt Floor at Bowmore
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Glenn tossing the Malt the old way. Bowmore is one of only a handful of Distilleries in Scotland to use floor malting for a portion of their grain.
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Wash Back # 1 at Bowmore
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Still Life; Bowmore
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Bowmore’s Spirit Safe
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Ardbeg; but the glasses are empty
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Jackie, our guide at Ardbeg. Awesome…
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that’s better some Ardbeg in an earlier incarnation; Kildalton…
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View from the dock at Ardbeg
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The Money Shot
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Loch and K(e)y members contemplating the Kildalton… A unanimous winner!
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Celebrity Whisky couple Brandall horsing around at Ardbeg
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The contemplative lifestyle. The professor deep in thought.
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Still House at Ardbeg. Ardbeg was the first distillery we visited on the trip. It certainly set the tone for an amazing trip. Thanks to Jackie and the Moet Hennessy folks in the US for making it possible.
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