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Advantages: An Amazing Inn Disadvantages: A little off the normal tourist track
Picture a bleak February day in the Highlands. Snow capped mountains, a wind sharp enough to cut granite, and the only signs of life sheep huddling behind stone walls and checking their thermometers. We had driven over from near Dundee, through Blairgowrie and over the mountain to Pitlochry via Strathardle, but as we descended off the moor by pure chance, we spotted the Moulins Inn, about a mile out of the town centre. Lunchtime and frostbite and impulse made us stop.
A roaring peat fire, a great welcome from those present and a meal to die for, accompanied by a modest number of pints of Old Redemption - a beer brewed in the micro brewery behind the Inn and unavailable anywhere else. The Moulins made a lasting impression on four very weary travellers and we have returned many times since, in both summer and winter. If you are going ...
Advantages: A good base for touring the area Disadvantages: I can't think of any
Pitlochry is an ideal place to either stop overnight on your tour of Scotland or as a base for exploring the surrounding area.
Pitlochry itself is a small town with a theatre where there is a summer festival each year. There is a dam with splendid views from the top and a visitor’s centre, which gives an insight into how the whole thing works. There is also a viewing chamber where you can watch salmon make their way up the fish ladder to spawn in Loch Faskally. A fish ladder, for those of you who don’t know, is a series of chambers full of water set side by side with each higher than the preceding one. Each chamber is linked with those either side by a narrow gap in the chamber wall so that the salmon can swim up through each chamber in turn and out at the top, thus climbing up past the dam.
To the east of Pitlochry is ...
SusanLesley 22.01.2001 (23.01.2001)
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Advantages: Small and personal tours, whiskey tasting! Disadvantages: Have to be careful with the tasting if you are driving!
Hidden in a glen above Pitlochry in the Southern Highlands of Scotland sits an unlikely gem in the brilliant jewels of Britain. Here stands, as it has for nearly 170 years, the smallest distillery in Scotland, perhaps the smallest legal distillery on Earth! Edradour has a history and tradition that continues to flourish.
History and process of Whiskey Making:
(I find this history very interesting!)
It is unclear when the first Scotch whisky was distilled. However, the ancient Celts soon gave this extraordinary drink the name- ?uisge beatha? - which in Gaelic means ?water of life?. Anyone who has had at least a ?wee dram? can testify to the life it ignites in them.
In 1707, whisky production was pushed underground in order for the distillers to escape the high taxation on malt and whisky that the new government had imposed ...
