Inverness to Edinburgh

We started our fifth and final day of our Scottish highlands tour with a visit to the Highland Folk Museum. This was an outdoor museum that showcased the old living styles and architecture of the highlands from the 19th and 20th centuries. We saw replicas of traditional houses, train stations, lolly shops, schools, tailor workshops, sheep shearing stations and post offices with an incredible mountain backdrop. It was lovely walking around in the sun and learning about this interesting way of life in the highlands. We also saw some lovely ducks in the pond.

We then made a stop at the Blair Athol Distillery, where we explored the distillery and learnt about the scotch whisky making process as well as some fun facts about whisky in Scotland, including that:
- Blair Athol produces about 3million litres of whisky a year with most larger distilleries producing around 30 million litres.
- For a whisky to be called a ‘scotch whisky’, it needs to be matured for at least 3 years in oak wood.
- There are over 180 distilleries in Scotland.

We had a late lunch stop (another supermarket lunch deal!) in a town called Pitlochry. We enjoyed walking around in the sun and even tried whisky flavoured ice cream! (Reminded us a lot of rum and raisin, but without the raisins - Gab's favourite!)

We then made our final stop in the town of Dunkeld, where we had a nice walk along the water and around the local cathedral. We also tried our final ‘Scottish delicacy’ which was a Scottish tablet, a very sugary sweet!

Cara drove back to Edinburgh and we said goodbye to the tour group at around 6pm. We walked back to check in to our new hostel. The hostel is very cool as it was an old cathedral converted in dorm rooms!

We quickly freshened up and then met Zoe and Stu at Brewdog Brewery (Scottish beer company) for dinner and drinks and had a great catch up! Daniel and Stu enjoyed tasting flights while we caught up on life, work and travel!!Read more