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Category Archives: Vacations
Scotland Recap – Part five
I’m pretty sure this will be the last part of the massive recap. You can read parts one, deux, three and four before moving on. Or not. You’re a grown ass person, right? Driving from Elgin to Pitlochry Elgin – Hunting for Whisky … Continue reading
Scotland Recap – Part four
You can read parts one, deux, and three before moving on. Hopefully, this is the very last part, as I don’t want to turn this into the Wheel of Time. Driving from Skye to Inverness Saying goodbye to Portree. The hotels … Continue reading
Scotland Recap – Part three
Part one is here, and part deux is there. You know what to do. Driving to the Caslte Around 5:15am we made our way down the stairs and were met outside by our host Gibson. He got up at the … Continue reading
Scotland Recap – Part deux
If you didn’t read part one, you probably should. To be quite honest, I’m pretty sure you can figure out what’s going on if you start here, but you’ll have to apply some suspension of disbelief and just accept that for … Continue reading
Scotland Recap – Part one
Flying in Transport from home to airport almost uneventful. Almost, because we witnessed a car hit two pedestrians! The kids were crossing the street between stopped cars and never looked the right way. To top it off, they started yelling … Continue reading
The Loot
From left to right: Edradour matured in very old Tokaji cask, Ardbeg Fèis Ìle, Campbeltown Longrow and Caol Ila Moch. Click to embiggify These are the bottles I brought back from Scotland. At first I thought I was going to … Continue reading
1,737 Pictures
Hey! Just another quick update… I managed to upload all my Scotland pictures to Flickr. You can see the whole Scotland 2011 set, unfiltered. Warning: the pictures don’t do justice to the beauty of the landscape. You really should go … Continue reading
Mr. FancyPants
This is my favorite distiller. They came out with a “Manager’s Choice”. At 400$ a bottle, this makes it slightly out of my price range. But oh just so slightly. I can almost taste it. Quick poll: Am I bringing … Continue reading
Look at that counter go!
Awesome! We started talking about this trip almost ten years ago. It’s finally happening: In less than 60 hours, I’ll be on a plane flying to Edinburgh via London! Unless something goes terribly wrong. Because knowing me, I’m not jumping for … Continue reading
Huge
If you follow me on the twitter, the facebook, the flickr and/or the foursquare, you already know that I spent the week end in Montreal. The main purpose of this visit was to go eat at the famous Le Garde-Manger, … Continue reading
I have a good 10 inches in the front
I know that this sounds fantastic to some of you, but it’s really a burden when you have to live with this. I’m talking about snow, of course. Yesterday we got the (thankfully!) last snow storm of February. The main … Continue reading
Look at my nice counter!
Wow, look at the time left until I fly to Scotland. Awesome. –>
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Oh look, a canned post. :-)
So yesterday was our last full day in Orlando. We went to New Smyrna Beach, and had food at Chases on the beach. It was cool. We had planned to go back to Seasons 52 for a fancier dinner – … Continue reading
Oh, there you are!
Wow. Ten full days without a post. Well, I was at the cottage for most of these days. Yes, stuff did happen. Rather than to bore you with a play-by-play of the last ten days, I’m stealing Chris Cactus‘ “by the … Continue reading
