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Full Day In Isay prounouced Ila
... BEEN ON. I was priviledged to be part of almost everything they do at Bruichladdich today. I was there for the grind, the wash, samples the wash backs, and watched feints and middle run on the distilling floor. I filled barrels, turned on the mash tonne and got an hour and a half with Jim McEwan talking about the then and now of whisky. It was only to be a few minutes but turned into 90! i wished I had videoed ...
Arrichar Loch Long to Isle of Arran
Another good breakfast then off to connect with the ferry to Arran. Driving in the rain today but makes it all very Scottish and atmospheric. All the way down beautiful Loch Fyne to wait in the murk for the ferry which is slowly approaching. Think we will hole up in the hotel this afternoon and sit the rain out. Got the rustic little car ferry for the half hour ride to Arran. Very functional. ...
Around the Kintyre Peninsula
... from Arran to his brother Alexander in North Carolina that there were hundreds of families in Arran and the neighboring Argyllshire [the Kintyre peninsula] who wanted him to go with them to North Carolina. Now their descendants, having benefited from the greater opportunities offered in the new world, can return and embrace their ancestral homeland, as others before me have done. It is a deeply moving ...
McAlister Country
... where Ronald McAlister, Alexander's grandfather, was living in 1717 when he bought Balinakill. The family lived there until 1739, when they sold it and emigrated to the Cape Fear valley in North Carolina, where my paternal grandmother was born and many of Alexander's descendants still live to this day.
We checked into our B&B, met ...
Ardbeg!
... br> Just up the road from Ardbeg lies one of the most notable sites on Islay, the ruins of the Kildalton church, with its 8th-century cross. It was amazing to see this medieval treasure, which would grace any art museum in the world, standing outside in this simple, out-of-the-way churchyard. It is said to have been inspired by the ...
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