What’s In A Name?
Wikipedia tells me that the name Ogilvie (also commonly spelled Ogilvy) is well known in Scotland. That’s been reinforced a few times during our travels, like when we introduced ourselves …
Category: Scotland
Water, Barley, and Yeast
Suzy and I left Nethy Bridge yesterday morning hoping to paddle some of the River Spey in our packrafts, which are ultralight inflatables that are quite capable in whitewater (although …
A Wee Drive
Last night we asked our innkeeper at the lovely Birch Croit Cottage in Nethy Bridge for any recommendations to visit in the local area, and he had some great advice. …
Bookends
Today we bookended one of the most touristy destinations in all of Scotland with two slices of more local culture. We started our day at the Scottish Highland Games in …
A Lot To Learn
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” With that in mind, we are now in sunny (ok, cloudy and …