Because I have little inclination to chart my whereabouts on social media, it may come as a surprise to this audience that I was away on a foreign trip for a week. On the other hand, if you have been following this blog for some years, you could probably surmise that a trip to Scotland revolving around scotch was due on a triannual basis.
We covered significant ground but a smaller number of distilleries this time around, primarily because our targets were more remote in the absolute sense, not clustered together in most cases, and fairly distant from one another. In between visiting 9 distilleries over the course of 4 days, we saw parts of Scotland that we hadn’t visited before. There will be pictorial summaries of both scotch and scenery in due time.
I am not very fond of flying across multiple time zones for short trips, so my incredibly lovely and talented travel planner figured out how to tack two days in Iceland onto the overall itinerary. This was my first visit to the country, with just enough time for a quick circuit of prime highlights. Impressions of what I managed to cover will also appear in these pages as per my standard MO.
Being in Iceland in winter, I certainly could not have passed up going on a Northern Lights-chasing expedition. For a teaser, here is photographic evidence that the aurora borealis did make an appearance in front of my lens.
