2004
29th May 2004
Aah it's the annual trip to islay for the whisky festival , it's hard to believe it's the third one in a row we've been to , especially after the first one we said we wouldn't do it again ! It's more like a gathering of old friends now , the group of friends seems to be getting bigger every year !
We got back to getting up at the more reasonable hour of 4am this year ! Nothing unusual happened on the way to the ferry either , no fighting wildlife ,nothing . We tried to book the candlelight dinner on the way but couldn't get through , luckily Tamara once again came up trumps and got us on .
It was just before 3.30pm when we got to the accommodation for this year , We decided to go self catering and managed to get booked up in The Inns in Bowmore . We were so impressed by the place when we got there we promptly booked the place for the 2005 festival !
View from the Living Room View from The Kitchen
Once we'd unloaded all our stuff we headed of down to Ardbeg to grab a couple of festival bottlings and catch up with old friends .It was also our first look at the newly refurbished Old Kiln , having got there at a little after 4pm and bumping into Ian Gray (well known Scottish Distillery and landscape artist !) , We spent a couple of hours catching up on news and gossip over coffees and beers . We spent the rest of the evening having a curry in the Taj Mahal Bowmore (it didn't seem as good as last year ) and found out that there's a rival restaurant and take-away now in Port Ellen , Has Islay gone Curry Mad ???
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