After spending the night in Inverness last night, we set off pretty early this morning(battled to get thekids up). We spent some trime in Nairn for a walk around the harbour, Fishertown, and the City Centre. The tide was out and the kids were amazed to see that there was a rather large boat just lying on the harbour floor.
Next was off to a smaller and very quaint town called Forres fo a walk around, and then on to The Macallan for a distillery tour. Whilst the distillery is in it's annual maintenance shutdown period, we were shown the entire process from Malting the Barley to distillation, and then the filling of the barrels. They also talk quite a bit about the barrles that they use and where they source them from as this is probably the most important part of the whisky making process - the aging. The tour was finished with some samples. We of course managed to buy some rather larger samples to bring back with us. Next was a drive through the village of Craigellachie, and then a stop at its bridge, which is no longer in use, but was built by Thomas Telford in 1814, and is the oldest stell bridge in Scotland.
Lunch was in Aviemore at a pub called Mackenzie's, and then back on the road to Dailly. What was supposed to be a 3.5 hour drive ended up taking almost 5 hours due to 2 quire serious accidents on the way back.
We stopped for fuel after driving 1099.7kms on a tank(61.6l) of diesel(5.6l/100km). It is quite amazing that a large modern car can achieve such mileage, and it is fantastic not to have to be filling up every 5 minutes with the price of diesel here being between GBP1.15 and 1.22/litre.
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