The Letter That Johnnie Walker Read

Today was a good and busy one. We had breakfast at the hotel in the morning and I checked off another Scottish cuisine I wanted to try before I left - black pudding (again sounds worse than it is if you look it up)

We made our way to our first scheduled tour of the Mary King’s Close, a close is essentially an alley named for the most influential person of the time that lived near the close, in this case, Mary King - a business woman from the 17th century. The close has since had a building built on top of it (hard to explain but the whole place is underground now, and the royal exchange sits above it now). We made our way into the labyrinth tour and our guide explained how the first room (about 200 SF) we visited was once inhabited by about 20 people, and they would all communally share the bucket in the middle of the room - I’ll let you figure out what for. Our guide continued on to detail the conditions the previous inhabitants had, which included half of the population of Edinburgh dying to the plague at one point in time, being beheaded for numerous reasons, and other various fun facts - I see now why my ancestors left for the New World to fight Indians..

After that we had lunch, I had another food I wanted to have in Scotland - smoked salmon. We went to St Giles Cathedral, a church built in the 1300’s and then back to the hotel. I tried some of the pubs outside of our hotel that were apparently some of the oldest in Edinburgh - the White Hart Inn (enjoyed by famous old poets of Scotland ) & the Last Drop (the last place a condemned prisoner would enjoy a drink before they were executed in the gallows outside) , I will post a gallery of photos this time instead of piece mailing them and see how that works.

We went to the Johnnie Walker tour after that, and really were not that impressed. Johnnie Walker is a blended whisky, so the distillers do all the work in making the whisky and Johnnie Walker will just mix them all together.. they’re just mixologists (bartenders). Went to a few pubs after that and got my sister a shirt based on her favorite Irish song (picture in gallery)

We are golfing tomorrow, which I’m really looking forward to, will post more on that tomorrow.

Paul Harvey, Good Day.