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.
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Royal Mile was bustling on Saturday morning
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Looking across Waverly Bridge
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More cityscape
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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... |
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Cadenhead's is Edinburgh's oldest whiskey shop...the first to bottle scotch, way
back in 1842; introduced me to single malts in 1989 |
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Cadenhead price list for bottling direct from the independent
single malt producers |
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