Site seeing!

Our Tour Guide

Ok, so before anyone gives me a hard time she posed for this picture on purpose. Now that the disclaimer is out. Emily is pointing the direction to the Calanais Standing Stones in Callanish, Lewis.

Not Stones

Ruins in the middle of a Loch

Nathan, Brea, Callum..I'm guessing Wizard of Oz's not sure?

 You'll noticed that we're all bundled up. Again one of Scotland's claims to fame is that you get all four seasons in one day. We started with jackets, took them off and in a blink we were back in them. A little sunshine, rain, Hail, sunshine, skip rain, back to hail and sprinkles. Insert wind wherever you like because it really never stops in Lewis, its just the temperature of the wind that you notice.

Calanais "Scottish Stonehenge"

explanation of the stones

cut and paste to read it.

Okay look closely and you'll see Sammie..Oh and if you try and push the stones over they don't budge.

A "wee dram" of the only Scottish Malt on the Island.

We had a chance to visit the distillery its on the Red River. Back in the day of the Vikings if you didn't pay your taxes they would use the sword to take off your head. Thus the river ran "Red" with blood. Today we were assured that the locals pay their taxes and the water is crystal clear. This is one of the only Whiskies not sold in the states, yet! It's also the first Malt produced legally in Lewis in quite sometime. A whisky is only considered to be a whisky until it has matured to three years and a day. Anything less is considered a spirit. We tried the same exact Spirit as this Malt and there is a considerable amount of difference to the taste. If you were to drink the Malt first then the Spirit, the Spirit will taste very bad. But cost wise you can buy the Spirit for about 20 pnds and the Malt for 150 pnds. We only bought a couple of these wee drams for 6 pnds each. We were hoping to bring them back but the corks do not seat well. So were stuck with leaky bottles, not sure what to do with them now?