Tag Archives: Bunnahabhain
A Walk On the Wild Side As the last of the sun’s rays cast their shadows Hikes across the boggy coastline, as the burns boil and bubble, and out on the hill a shepherd, and three eager dogs, work hard to round up the sheep from the headland. The flock make their gradual descent over [...]
Going on an expedition for me is always a case of taking along the ‘kitchen sink’ and anything else I can fit in too! So with the sunshine bursting through the windows of the farmhouse on Sunday morning, when eldest suggested we take a hike out to the north of Islay and make the most [...]
It has been bitterly cold, but with the Paps of Jura covered in their snow coats, and huge blue skies with billowing clouds dancing across them, in between the hailstorms, it has been spectacularly beautiful. A walk out across the headland at Bunnahabhain. Deer darting across our path, and eagles swooping overhead, with the deep [...]
Times are changing. The houses that were once home for the workers at Bunnahabhain Distillery have nearly all been demolished. Building work has begun. Bunnahabhain was a thriving village when the Happy Farmer was a young boy. It had a school, a village hall, post office and shop. It was once home to some twenty [...]
