Well made it to Culloden this morning...suddenly cold, windy with rain as we walked and read....unpleasent... almost as bad as the sleety April day in '46 when the Jacobities tok a terrible pounding from the Britts.....they have a long stone wall about 7' tall made out of flat, stacked slate stones....every stone that stands proud of the face represents a dead combatant....(as close as they can tell) the first stones are British....45 ish or so...takes up about 20' of the wall.....the other 1500/2000 are the Highlanders...several hundred feet of stones... a they had a series of "unfortunate events".....the Britts used the Highlander Clans pretty much the same as they did the Acadians......or perhaps the other way 'round actually.... which stands to figure by the dates being pretty close together.
Then went to the Glenlivits distillery....went on the tour..awesome/high tech/modern facility...did a wee bit of tasting and came away with two superior bottles of wisky (Scot spelling)...a bottle of Glenlivit Nadurra...aged 16 yr...bottled in 11/2011..54.2%...Natural Cask Strength...wooohoo and also another bottle of Chivas Brothers 12 yr...bottled straight from the cask in 10/2012 at 55.1%.....Buss stops frequently so the ladys can shop for ****....finally found a place I could shop!!!
This is a little hot and requires a bit of water....but you get it right and it is really smooth......LOLLOL!! They have a big sign on the wall that reads......
"Drink nothing but water with Scotch
AND
Drink nothing but Scotch with water"
Settling in to our new big 'ol granite castle in Aberdeen for the night.....might go take a swim before supper..maybe a sauna...**** this is making me wish I smoked cigars...LOL!!!
Be here two nights....got a wicked upgrade to a very private suite unexpectedly....room #1 LOL!!!