Monday, September 7, 2009

Royal Mile

Edinburgh's Royal Mile extends between the two royal castles, Edinburgh and Holyrood, and it is an extraordinary mile of history, commerce, architecture, and, of course, the ongoing festival. We visited a number of shops, then, with some time to kill before the big event of the night--the grand finale of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which started at 10:30 PM--we went downtown and saw a perfectly dreadful movie, The Time Traveler's Wife. This is the price I pay for those extra shots of Bruichladdich, Talisker, Laphroaig, etc.
Royal Mile was bustling on Saturday morning

Looking across Waverly Bridge













More cityscape








Tasting at a Royal Mile whiskey shop...my first Bruichladdich, an Islay, smoky, 
fiery;  Vicki always asks for a taste, sniffs, then hands it to me for further 
investigation...
Cadenhead's is Edinburgh's oldest whiskey shop...the first to bottle scotch, way
back in 1842; introduced me to single malts in 1989


















Cadenhead price list for bottling direct from the independent 
single malt producers

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