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| Glasgow Cathedral |
This morning we'll be touring Glasgow on our tour bus, with our driver acting as the tour guide as well as driving, as he is a proud Glasgow native. It's a beautiful sunny day, and we had a leisurely start about 9:30.
Our first stop was the Glasgow Cathedral. Nowhere near the size of Stirling Castle, it's still a very large and old (by our North American standards) cathedral, with much of the present cathedral dating from a major rebuilding in the 13th century. It's hard to imagine the man-years of labour that went into this.
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| Some of the common cobblestone surfaces outside |
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| Some Outlander scenes were shot here |
Outlander content was shot in a number of places we've been around Scotland. There were several fans of the Outlander series in our tour group.
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| More cobblestone |
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| Scaffolding here too, way up there |
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| Odd to see a satellite dish on this old place. It does look like an old dish. |
We then moved on to view the Doulton fountain. The fountain is unusual in that it's made from terracotta, and has 4 faces with each side representing one of Britain's former colonies: India, South Africa, Canada and Australia.
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Later we drove by the not-so-famous Leaning Tower of Glasgow:
For lunch today we were let loose on St George Square. Lots of shopping around there, and lots of pigeons and gulls that liked all the statues, which usually had a bird or two perched on them:
After lunch we saddled up and headed to the Rosebank distillery for a tour and tasting. The Rosebank started up around 1840 but fell on hard times and closed in 1993.
See the full story here. <Rosebank history link>
Because the renewed distillery bottled their first distillation just over a year ago, none of their own whisky was available for tasting yet. Scottish law says spirits must be aged for at least 3 years before they can be sold. Rosebank was resurrected by Ian Maclean Distillers though, who started up a couple of other distilleries in the past number of years, so the tasting was well supplied from these other distilleries.
The distillery interior and tour is beautifully done:
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| Fermentation vats |
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| Special barley is malted as the base ingredient |
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| Different ingredients are used and blended |
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| Distillation stills |
They were quite proud that their whisky is triple-distilled. Apparently this is rare.
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| Barrelled whisky quietly aging. |
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| 3 distinctly different whiskeys to taste |
We were back at the hotel by 4, ready to hit the streets for night life!
No, you're right. We flaked out, and got a hotel pizza to eat with our premixed gin & tonic Cath had found yesterday. I'm starting to really feel the cold I picked up recently, likely from someone in the tour group. Cathie is starting to feel one coming on too.
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