Good morning! Good morning! Now, where are we today? We are on the Balmoral Estate. Yes!
On the grounds of her Majesty the Queen. Yeah. And it's just around the corner from the Fife
Arms, like a 10 minute drive. Yeah. So we're walking from the car park to the castle and
then we can't wait what it looks like in person. Welcome to the Scottish holiday home of the
royal family.
So we won't be meeting the royal family. No, Queen, the Queen's not here. They usually
spend their summer holidays here in Scotland - which is end of July till September. Yeah.
And what you see here is not that old, is it? No, it was built in the 1850s and the
interesting fact about Balmoral is it's a private property of the Queen. And it was
bought back in the day by Prince Albert, the estate was bought by Prince Albert and then
at some point they found the castle too small and it was demolished and they built what
we see behind us - yeah - Balmoral Castle. Yeah. And we can see the garden and there
is one I think it's called ballroom - yeah - with a jubilee exhibition but we can't film
that. No, you're not allowed to film there. No but we can film the castle and the gardens
and this is why we're here. Yeah. Queen's coffee. Let me see.
And over there is the vegetable garden and the conservatory and on the far left the Queen
Mary garden. We will check it out later. And there are several walks around the estate
and I think we're gonna do the red one. Yes. And what we saw here, there is a jubilee walk
as well. Yeah. I'd love to do that but we don't know how long it will be. Yeah because
it's not on the map. But maybe it's just all around - all of it - together. We invented
the jubilee walk - yeah - if there is one. It looks like it because the arrow has a - a
diamond in it - a diamond in it. I wasn't sure a diamond or crown so but this is just
straight ahead with no real views. Yeah and it's not on the map. No so we will go there.
Yeah take the red one. And hopeful very lovely views towards Balmoral Castle. Yeah.
And on the estate you find these so-called cairns. Most of them are from the Victorian
times and they are basically memorials.
This one is in memory of Arthur Duke of Connaught and Streathearne. Yeah, I don't know the pronunciation.
Married to Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. Yeah, so a German. Yes. And there's also a
memorial for Prince Albert and we're trying to find it. Yeah because this one we found
by coincidence. It's not really on the map, is it? No. So hopefully we will find the one.
Oh no, we just we walked around here but - I made a mistake. It's fine. Because the map
said Arthur's cairn and I read it as Albert cairn. Oh, I see. So we we don't know where
Albert's cairn - it's not on one of the routes. Yeah. There is one because I saw that in the
internet but I don't know where it is. That's so strange. I would love to see it. Me too
because it's a really big one.
It's like a pyramid. Now I tell you a secret. Me - no, I tell them - or to the lovely people
out there - to the viewers. I want to tell them, I'm gonna tell you a secret now. Kirsten's
got a secret name. I always call her Jemima Worryby because she always thinks about what
could go wrong - yeah - and at the moment she thinks it's gonna rain. Yeah and we we
brought the no, we have an umbrella with us and the weather forecast said there won't
be any rain but it looks like there will be rain. Yeah and she told me to bring the umbrella
back to the car so we've got no umbrella. Yes and now I'm talking about it's going to
rain and Jörg said - no, it's not. No, I was going to say - it won't rain. Now Kirsten
he said, what will you do if if there isn't any rain? What will be your um - punishment?
Yes and I said I'm going to drink alcohol tonight and I don't drink alcohol so that
for me, hang on my nose - so that will be your punishment - so he said ah, you're going
to have a cocktail but that's not a punishment for Jörg. For me, it might be. I don't know.
So here's what we do. We decided that Jörg will try to find the Albert memorial. Well,
he knows where it is but one way is about 30 minutes and we're running out of time a
little bit. And I will go to the vegetable garden, the Queen Mary garden and the conservatory
and film it so we just split and everyone can film.
I am waiting for Jörg to call me. In the meantime I got myself a slice of gluten-free
orange cake and hot chocolate because why not. Jörg is coming.
Did you find? Yes. It's huge, isn't it? Oh yes. It's a huge pyramid and the views are
amazing. I saw it, I actually, I checked it. I saw it. We have to come back. So it was
worth the walk. Yeah, I can't wait to see your footage. Yeah. We didn't buy anything.
No. We we don't need anything. And I will be punished tonight. Yes she will be. And
you will see that in the video prior to this one so check it out. And stay tuned for our
well, we will be going back tomorrow and we will visit a distillery. Yeah, I'm really
looking forward to it. Yes. Jörg will buy some whisky or wants to buy some whisky. Let's
see. So stay tuned for that. We will see you on our way to the distillery.
This one? Hmm. Cashews? Yes. I think so. Why not?
So on our way to Aberfeldy Distillery - yeah - we stumbled upon this place, The Highland
Chocolatier. What's his name? Iain, Iain Burnett? And it says here chocolate tastings, that
would be more my cup of tea. But you know what? We had some chocolates to try - because
they're just so tasty - so good - that's why I couldn't resist to buy something. Yes so
good. And here we are at the Dewars Aberfeldy Distillery. Yeah. And Jörg is really excited
because he wants to buy some whisky afterwards so - maybe - yeah we booked a tour and yeah,
let's go inside. Now what we do is we're going to try
blended whisky, Dewars blended and Aberfeldy which is the single malt whisky.
Cheers. I prefer water.
But now try the single malt. Try that one. Prefer that one? Prost. Oh my God. It's just
now my cup of tea. How can anyone drink that?
Which one do you want to get? What's the one? I don't know. This one? Japanese Smooth. Yeah.
Hmm.
Can I see the front label again? is that the front? This one?
So it's eight years old? Yes but it's double aged because it's finished in a Japanese oak
cask. Hmm. So this is what Jörg bought.
A bottle of Japanese Smooth blended whiskey and also a book. Yeah. Can you show it?
This one. Whiskypedia. A guide to Scotch whisky. I need my glasses. No, I was - it says - A
Gazette of Scotch whisky. A gazette, a gazette of Scotch whisky. Yeah. Great. Well we're
here at Cairn Lodge and we will find something to eat. Just as we said on our way to the
Scottish Highlands - yeah - you said we should come back here - stop here have something
to eat and then head home. Yes. Because after that it's a four hours drive still. Yeah.
So we hope you liked our Scottish Highlands adventure, we did and we'll see you again
very soon - yeah - as always so stay tuned for more and until next time. Yeah, take care.
Take care. Bye. Bye bye.