Auchentoshan Distillery Whisky Festival Saturday 29th August 2009.
We all gathered at Jim’s hoose, the two Whisky Boys, Jim and Nicola, together with Jim’s wife Jacqueline and our new American Ambassador Bruce. All of us proudly sporting the “Whisky Boy” polo  shirts. Unfortunately Dougie could not attend this festival as he was already in attendance, down [...]

Bladnoch Whisky - Folk & Blues Festival August 2009
Having arranged some weeks ago for Jim and I, (with wives) to visit this much advertised gig, it turned out not to be, as an e-mail from Auchentoshan arrived inviting the Whisky Boys to their own festival, and so these two excellent Distilleries managed to do what [...]

“Whisky Live” is over “lets eat”
Well what a night was had by all. The meal was a great success, hard work, but enjoyed by all. As you know the Whisky Boys had attended the Whisky Live event (Jim, Dougie, Nicola and “Our American Ambassador” Bruce), and I am sure they will provide you with an [...]

Here we are, our last full day on the Island of our dreams. Today is Bunnahabhain Distillery Open day - one of our favourites. As it was our intention to go to Bunnahabhain around noon, we used the early morning after breakfast to pack away most of our bags for our return trip [...]

Here we are Thursday morning and the gang of four are still here, but alas this is our last day together as Iain and Nicola head off home via different means at different times, but at this point we were all together organising plans for another day. The main event for our day was [...]

Wednesday 27th May 2009 and we move onto day five of the Islay Malt and Music Festival, and there are now four for breakfast, Jim, Jacqueline Iain and our latest arrival Nicola. The morning got off to a humerous start where Nicola (Jim’s daughter) decided to put his left over Whisky from the night [...]

This is now Tuesday 26th May and Jacqueline was on breakfast duty and Jim and Iain set off to collect Nicola from the Airport at approximately 9 am. Once Nicola, Jim and Iain returned from the airport, we quickly got Nicola settled in to her room and we all sat down to a good old [...]

It is now Monday 25th May and we are sitting around the breakfast table, Jim, Jacqueline and our guest Iain. We decided to have a slightly later breakfast and munched on cereal and toast with lashings of tea and coffee, a hearty start to the day.
We checked the festival programme and decided to make our [...]

Now Sunday 24th May and after a peaceful nights rest Jim and Jacqueline were awakened by the mooing of the highland cows which were in the field across from the house. Hairy mums with hairy babies wandering over for their morning drink from the water trough.
The day started with a hearty Islay breakfast finished [...]

It commenced on Saturday 23rd May, our suitcases and bags were packed, the boxes of food stuff and the case of wine together with Jim’s two bottles of after dinner and nightcap Whisky (bottle of Bruichladdich Rocks and a litre of Dewar’s 12 year old Special Reserve blended Scotch). Not to be out done Jacqueline [...]