Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Day 9: Oban and Glencoe

Woke up to a traditional Scottish breakfast including blood pudding
and haggis among sausages, ham, eggs, tomatoes, toast, fruit and any
other breakfast item. Way too much food.

Headed north to Oban (with a few detours to some sometimes ficticious
castles, sometimes not) for a tour of the distillary. Lotta fun.
Delicious samples of our Annum Cara scotch. And a better understanding
of where my scotch comes from.

From Oban we headed up north to Glencoe to observe the site of the
MacDonald massacar.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe?wasRedirected=true
Definately gave pause. Fascinating. From there headed further north
towards Skye with many scenery stops. Not possible to describe the
immense and almost strange and mysterious beauty of this place. So
remote... So incredible.

Tomorrow: Skye

4 comments:

  1. Blood Pudding? GAG! Haggis? GAG GAG!

    Interesting story about the massacre. Glad Mo wasn't there!

    GAG GAG GAG GAG!

    Thanks for keeping us up to date.

    GAG.

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  2. All haggis, all the time! Get lots of pictures of Skye!

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  3. Yeah, the haggis was okay for me but the blood pudding just didn't cut it, especially at breakfast time!

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