My nieces gave me whiskey for Christmas. Here is my thank-you note.
Dear ones,
Thanks very much for the Talisker Isle of Skye whiskey. We were actually at Skye once -- it would have been '79, I think. I had had a conference at Edinburgh, and we set off for the Highlands in a rented Ford Escort. I was my own travel agent. I went to the Public Library (we had those then) and read the printed travel guides (we had those, too) and wrote paper letters that I sent via the postal service (oh, yeah, we had that, too) to make reservations. What I didn't know was that our dates at Portree coincided with the Highland Games. Now, that was fun -- I liked watching the tossing of the caber and the pibroch competition -- but it was way crowded. When we were looking for lunch (in all the wrong places, to paraphrase the country song) we managed to get two seats at a big table in the pub on the High Street. The rest of the seats at the table were filled up with Belgian tourists -- folks who, even at 38, I thought of as young guys. They were kind of fun, too. My memories of lunching on the Isle of Skye are "filled rolls" (ham and cheese sandwiches on table rolls) and lots of beer and Flemish accents. I don't recall if we had Talisker, but (a few days later and down the coast) the Kilchoan Hotel had a heckuva selection of west coast Scotch whiskeys in the postage-stamp size hotel bar.
Thanks, too, for bringing back some memories.
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