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Wednesday 17 October 2007--We set out to tour the Moray coast, and are twenty minutes out of Craigellachie
when I realize that I've left my camera in the room. Fortunately, I have a film camera in the car, the Canon EOS650
I'd originally bought to use with infrared film. As well, I have five rolls of color slide film which I brought as
a hedge against camera malfunction. Or stupidity.
We start in Pennan, where exteriors for Local Hero were filmed. Then Gardenstown, from where we walk along the cliffside trail to tiny Crovie. All of these are former fishing ports, terribly exposed to northern gales, and this day is in fact blustery and punctuated by occasional squalls. The fishermen's impossibly charming stone houses are now mostly holiday cottages. Gardenstown is big enough to be a real village, with a hotel and a few shops, including a bakery where we warm ourselves with scotch pies. Crovie is so small that you cannot drive into it--the houses are separated from the sea by only a narrow footpath. You might think any residents there would resent a pair of tourists walking along the path, gawking at their cottages, but the few we actually see greet us warmly. We stop in Banff for a look around Parker's Whisky Shop [long since closed in questionable circumstances]. Mr Parker himself is pleased to engage in a lengthy whisky blether, and offers us a sample of "Pert Mellon", his exclusive bottling from the long-defunct Port Ellen distillery in Islay. Ron is impressed enough with it to buy a bottle. My eye is caught by a cask-strength bottle of Amrut, a single malt whisky from India. It's another oddity for my growing list of oddities. We have a fine dinner at the Mash Tun in Aberlour before having a final few pints at the Highlander. Next |
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