Day One - Glenkinchie, Gullane and North Berwick

Slept in today.....and slept well.  Jeff, Alan and I headed off to the Glenkinchie Distillery for a tour and some tasting.  Glenkinchie is the southern most distillery in Scotland and they make a sweeter, non-peated (not smokey) whisky....light, fruity, and very tasty.

We saw the old malt room, the grist mill, the washbacks, the copper stills, the spirit safe and the warehouse (where there were about 4,500 barrels.  At there off-site warehouse there are 4,000,000 barrels!)...then we moved on to the main attraction....the tasting room!  There we tasted two whiskies....their 12 year old and their Distillery Only Edition, which is aged for 12 years in American Oak Bourbon barrels, then aged for a further 4 + years in Sherry casks. Both were incredibly delicious!

After tasting, we were off....drove through Haddington on our way to Gullane for lunch with the ladies at The Old Club House where I had a luch of Haggis, Neeps and Tatties (sorry, no photo of lunch).  It was tasty (even though I know what haggis is....)

The Girls and the pub that we were at on this beautiful day

The Boys

Of course, I had to have a pint with lunch....so I opted for a Timothy Talyor.....mmmmmm.

After lunch, Alan Jette headed home, while we ventured off to North Berwick to see Tantallon Castle ruins.  A short drive and a long walk later we were there.

The walk up to the castle....

I was hoping to find this....but I couldn't. I guess I'll have to wait until tonight for another pint.

Bass Rock....it's white because....well, that's all bird droppings.

That's all I'm going to say about that!

My lovely bride of 25  years!!

I'd love to write more and tell about our dinner, but it's 1:40AM right now and we've got a full day ahead of us tomorrow. TTFN.