Aberdeen (day 6)

No pictures today.  I’m way too tired to sort through pictures for the post.  We have 2 days in Edinburgh after tonight so I will post pictures then.

Today on our way from Inverness to Aberdeen we went through a little town called Nairn.  This little town we learned was where Bonnie Prince Charlie had hoped to surprise the Duke of Cumberland and defeat him.  But, like everything else he planned he couldn’t get his act together and it wasn’t to be.   The town is really cute and has the traditional cottages lining the streets.

We passed by Cawdor Castle which was the setting for Shakespere’s Macbeth.

Passed through another little town by the name of Elgin.  There is a cathedral there that is now a ruin.  During the life of the cathedral it was burned twice and rebuilt.  Then it lost it’s roof and was left alone after that.  It is a very well preserved ruin with a cemetery.  It and the cemetery have been fenced off so you can’t walk around inside, but you can take pictures.

After that we were off to the Glenfiddich whiskey distillery.  Got some good pictures of the distillery and we took a tour to learn how they make the whiskey.  At the end of the tour we got to take three different years of whiskey that they make.   Learned that they buy previously used casks that had bourbon and sherry in them.  They fill each of the casks with the whiskey and leave them for a certain amount of time.  Then they take some whiskey from the bourbon cask and some whiskey from the sherry cask and combine them.  They then leave them in a different cask.   The whiskey ages as long as it remains in the cask.  Once they put it in bottles the aging stops.

After the whiskey tasking we went and had tea and scones.  The little place we went was a little cottage on the Dee river.  This was very cute.  After that we were off to Aberdeen and our hotel for the night.  Our hotel is called the Ardobe hotel and it started it’s life as a castle.  That’s it for today.  I’m off to get some sleep.