Monday 26 August 2013

Away days

Stirling

We have friends who live just ten miles outside Stirling and seven from Loch Lomond and this last week we have been up to sit in the Scotch mist for 5 days.
It's a part of Scotland,I've never really seen,although business took me to Glasgow and Edinburgh on many occasions.
What a beautiful part of the country it is, it would have been even better if we had a bit of sun, no midges and there weren't so many tourists about!

We had planned to visit the castle but couldn't get close to it for tourist buses and cars.
Stirling Castle from the West
We had planned to have a trip around Loch Katrine,on the steamship Sir Walter Scott but it was drizzling and the midges were clouding the air.Steamer SS Sir Walter Scott at Loch Katrine pier

Having said that the drives around the Trossachs, and the loch's, a visit to my first distillery and very good company made up for the minor disadvantages experienced.
We had a taster of the Malt at the Glengoyne Distillery http://www.glengoyne.com/ and of course the tour,which I have to say taught me a good deal about the methods used to create a single malt.

Glengoyne Distillery
I bought a bottle too!thumbnailThe Teapot Dram


Another trip beckons but with the rods and a loch-side cottage perhaps!

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