No pictures today.\u00a0 I’m way too tired to sort through pictures for the post.\u00a0 We have 2 days in Edinburgh after tonight so I will post pictures then.<\/p>\n
Today on our way from Inverness to Aberdeen we went through a little town called Nairn.\u00a0 This little town we learned was where Bonnie Prince Charlie had hoped to surprise the Duke of Cumberland and defeat him.\u00a0 But, like everything else he planned he couldn’t get his act together and it wasn’t to be. \u00a0 The town is really cute and has the traditional cottages lining the streets.<\/p>\n
We passed by Cawdor Castle which was the setting for Shakespere’s Macbeth.<\/p>\n
Passed through another little town by the name of Elgin.\u00a0 There is a cathedral there that is now a ruin.\u00a0 During the life of the cathedral it was burned twice and rebuilt.\u00a0 Then it lost it’s roof and was left alone after that.\u00a0 It is a very well preserved ruin with a cemetery.\u00a0 It and the cemetery have been fenced off so you can’t walk around inside, but you can take pictures.<\/p>\n
After that we were off to the Glenfiddich whiskey distillery.\u00a0 Got some good pictures of the distillery and we took a tour to learn how they make the whiskey.\u00a0 At the end of the tour we got to take three different years of whiskey that they make.\u00a0\u00a0 Learned that they buy previously used casks that had bourbon and sherry in them.\u00a0 They fill each of the casks with the whiskey and leave them for a certain amount of time.\u00a0 Then they take some whiskey from the bourbon cask and some whiskey from the sherry cask and combine them.\u00a0 They then leave them in a different cask.\u00a0\u00a0 The whiskey ages as long as it remains in the cask.\u00a0 Once they put it in bottles the aging stops.<\/p>\n
After the whiskey tasking we went and had tea and scones.\u00a0 The little place we went was a little cottage on the Dee river.\u00a0 This was very cute.\u00a0 After that we were off to Aberdeen and our hotel for the night.\u00a0 Our hotel is called the Ardobe hotel and it started it’s life as a castle.\u00a0 That’s it for today.\u00a0 I’m off to get some sleep.<\/p>\n
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