Glenmorangie Distillery, Tain - Scotland
by matt @ 12:55 pm. Blogged under Travel / Holidays
On Saturday I was very much looking forward to our drive up to Tain, North of Inverness, where we would find the Glenmorangie Malt Whisky distillery. Our Lonely Planet Guide to Scotland told us to arrive on Saturday between 10am and 4pm so we got there just after lunch. However, rather annoyingly the Lonely Planet Guide had it wrong; Glenmorangie’s distillery is closed completely on weekends - which ruled out visiting at all whilst in Northern Scotland. I was most annoyed, not least because that was one of the reasons I’d made Suzie_Q a named driver on the hire car 
So instead of a Glenmorangie tour we went for a scenic drive to Bonar Bidge, where we came across a lovely estuary (Kyle of Sutherland). Whilst taking photographs a police car turned up to investigate what we were doing - obviously not much crime to worry about in the Scottish Highlands - too few inhabitants. They didn’t bother to get out, just circled the car park and left again.. very odd.
Next up we headed back to Tain via a viewpoint called ‘Struie Hill’ - just a big hill with mobile phone masts on it and lots of electricity pylons. However, from up there we did get some fantastic views of the Loch and hills before us. We couldn’t go to far because the road was closed due to snow. I am still amazed that the local council had bothered to grit the road up there, we saw only 3 cars in an hour.
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