Category: travel
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Female powered
On the western fringe of Norway there is a distillery founded – and funded – by women. I wrote about Feddie for Whisky Magazine last year, but like many others it started out distilling gin. Fedje is a small, wild, granite island. Lashed by damp winds off the North Sea and home to just 500…
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French spirit
Amazing what gin you come across on a short break in France. Pays basques is home to several … and people were proud to show them off. Charente (home of Cognac) also gets in on the act. First up is Brana and in particular it’s espelette flavoured gin. You can’t visit Biarritz or St Jean…
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Wild feast
Foraging in Scotland – Seeking a taste of East Lothian. Blackberrying marked the end of the summer holidays when I was little. The plump dark berries squishing in the bag as we walked along before they appeared in my mother’s bramble and apple pie. That was the sum total of our wild food harvest in…
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Author escape – Angus
NEXT ADVENTURE I sent the last text for my next book Yorkshire’s Gins to the publisher in January, and immediately set off to the East Coast of Scotland to do research for some articles based around the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, the document asking the Pope to recognise Scotland’s independence and acknowledge…
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Virtual journeys 1
On a Borders Breather The writing of The Gin Clan was pretty intense at times, but it was a delight to be transported to different parts of Scotland. These virtual journeys often brought back happy memories of real visits. As I was writing up the profile of the Lilliard ginnery, I recalled a trip to…
The GIN CLAN 