Posts tagged with 'Scotland.'

The Electric Brae, Ayrshire, Scotland…

  • Posted on January 5, 2010 at 10:00 pm

The Electric BraeI remember being taken over The Electric Brae in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1970. It’s a gravity hill where automobiles appear to be drawn uphill whilst travelling down in some strange phenomenon!

Known locally as Croy Brae, the road appears to run uphill, and yet, with your auto engine off, the brake off, and out of gear, your auto will move of its own free will… Up the hill!

This experience I felt back in 1970 was truly uncanny and left me with a ever-lasting memory of The Electric Brae.

On the Whisky Trail…

  • Posted on August 30, 2009 at 9:52 pm

The Glenlivet… Glenfarclas…. Glenfiddich… Cragganmore… Macallan…. Lagavulin… Taliskar… Aberlour… Tomintoul….

Dispite Tartan and an over abundance of Sainsbury’s obsession with Haggis and Shortbread… Scotland’s best outgoing product, aside from wandering Scots… Is Scotch Whisky! Thought to have been introduced into The Highlands and The Lowlands by Irish Monks determined to inflict their rare concoction on the rest of civilization, set about a myriad on the unsuspecting Scots – After all, it had only been the Romanos and their wine-ways until then! But you have to understand Scotch to fully appreciate its wonderful value to mankind. ‘The Water of Life’ is what the Scots call it! Early distillation in the 17th Century was a very ‘Dodgy’ affair! – ‘For shots’ are poisonous and ‘after shots’ are undrinkable… And Gunpowder was even added! Scotch is distilled in copper vats – why?… well, if you have ever cut yourself on stainless steel you will know what I mean - copper can heal  much quicker than Stainless Steel…!  Scotch is matured in Oak Sherry Casks for a minimum of 3 years – in order to be called Scotch Whisky! –  Single Malt means that it is the product of a single distillery. On my many visits to this wonderful land… I would tell you that ‘The Scots’ are the most welcoming people in the World!

Opening Lines…

  • Posted on March 22, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Barney Westlake hadn’t expected to walk into another relationship quite so soon, in fact, his presence in Scotland and particularly his arrival in Largs was to forget Madeleine. That was some hell of an affair. He was sure to this day the woman was mad! Well, it certainly had felt like it. She had terrorized him and made his life an absolute misery with her unjustified jealousy and insane tantrums. To get away from her domination of him and her possession of his mind became his prime objective. Their relationship had become intolerable and near boarded on violence.

From ‘The Truth about Madeleine’ by Patrick Callaghan

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