Edradour Walk

Hi folks, we had a lovely walk on a lovely day at the Black Spout in Pitlochry. There were 6 of us today - Jacqueline, Susan , Gillian, Sylvia, Nicola and Jean D. We set off from the tourist info but there is a parking place at the start of the walk so next time we will know to go there.  Anyway we walked down past the Bells distillery and under the bridge till we came to a signpost saying the Black Spout, turned up there and it was an uphill climb so we had a welcome seat on the first perching bench we came to and took a photo.

It was all rather beautiful with the wood anemones in full bloom spreading all over the forest floor with little lilac violas and oxalis too. Then on and up till we came to a view point over the waterfall. It falls over 60m and was quite spectacular. We spotted some tree creepers there. Another welcome rest and then up some more till we eventually came out at the Edradour Distillery. "Great" - we all said together. Then we saw that it would cost us all a fiver to go in and see round the smallest distillery so me being an Aberdonian said "I'm nae paying that!" So Nicola went over to the kiosk and bought her beloved a wee miniature "Cos he is worth it" she said and we continued on our walk and once off the road and on to the track it was downhill all the way. As we got to the end of the track we looked down over a japanese garden in the Palace Hotel grounds which looked very nice and worth a closer look sometime.

We then headed for the Victoria Restaurant and had a lovely lunch - 5 bacon and lentil soups and 1 baked potato. Sylvia said that she thought there was a half pound of bacon in each bowl of soup. It was very nice with plenty of bread with it and all served very quickly.

Jean D
** Next week's walk is to be around Glamis and we'll meet as usual at the shop at 9.30 am on Friday **