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Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

Looking forward to seeing them ol' mate

All the best

Following our initial three day stay in Edinburgh and the World of Whisky tour, and due to a stormy strait situation, we got to see this scenc monument on a blustery day, with snow in the peaks, dedicated to British commandos who trained here during WWII. Our trip allowed a night in Glenrothes (the Boarders) and our favorite Oban (Oban Distillary).With our intended route to Skye via ferry at Maillag cut off by heavy seas in the Strait of Sleat, we went long route 'round to Fort William along the scenic Lochs: Alsh & Cluanie to the only bridge to Isle of Skye access at Kyle of Lochalsh>
We travelled some serious one lane roads; all the way to the northern tip of Skye to foto at Milovaig at the tip of the Duirinish Peninsula; stopping at the Talisker Distillery at Carbost. Talisker was the favourite whisky of writer Robert Louis Stevenson; my daughter is the director of the RLS museum in St Helena, CA (think Silverado Squatters ...written during his sojourn in CA)...Hey practically a IRS business deduction 'write-off' there... imho! Following that we headed to Grantown-on-Spey in the Cairngorms National Park. We sampled Dalwhinnie, Chivas Regal, GlenGrant & Cragganmore in Ballindallochdistilleries in the 'Speyside' district of whisky making. Getting misdirected by our GPS down the dirt farm path to Cragganmore required all of my old fire-trail Santa Cruz Mtns. trucker-driving skills (steering wheel on the Audi 6's right side)as (still sober)relief-driver to the (by then) 'over Scotch-sampled' kids' driving! A marvelous feat at age 66!{@ Jimbuna: you've got to have a Scottish venison pie at Craig's Pub in Grantown-on Spey; It's crammed with wonderful WWII and post- war airplane memorabilia/photos.} Following a hasty redistribution of various bottles for customs declaration limits amongst our bags, and a ten-hour flight-(over 25 hours awake each way)...we are pleased to sleep in our own bed ...with a vodka gimlet nightcap!(Note; for all grammar-Nazis; whiskey in Scotland is spelled Whisky)