{"id":30862,"date":"2015-01-29T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=30862"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:33:53","slug":"gleneagles-scottish-luxury-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/gleneagles-scottish-luxury-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleneagles: A Scottish Luxury Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was in Scotland for Hogmanay<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0this New Years,\u00a0I had the lucky\u00a0experience of being able to spend a few nights\u00a0at the 5 Star Luxury<\/strong> Scotland Golf & Spa Resort of Gleneagles<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There I dined on exquisite 3 course meals, full buffet breakfasts and enjoyed a very proper Afternoon Tea. Scones, sandwiches, desserts, what more could a girl ask for?<\/p>\n

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To say I was spoiled would be an understatement. \u00a0When you’re greeted with a tin of shortbread cookies, you know you are in for a treat! Literally.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Now enough about food though, I am here to talk about some of the things you might not have thought of to do at Gleneagles, which is the Falconry<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Falconry is a method of\u00a0hunting using trained birds of prey to find and spot rabbits or other small animals from the sky.<\/p>\n

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How they get the birds to fly is by keeping them at a\u00a0calculated weight, so they have the motivation to “work” for their food, aka, fly. Now this isn’t cruel, and they most definitely are not starving their birds. It’s just that falcons and hawks are naturally very lazy birds, so they do need that extra push.\u00a0(Not to much different than us humans.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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At Gleneagles they offer a variety of courses you can take, the majority do the introductory lesson which is about 45mins long. During which they tell you about the birds plus allow you to fly them and take some epic selfies.<\/p>\n

Whisky\u00a0Blending<\/h2>\n

Now if you are anything like me, whisky is not one of your go-to choices of spirits.\u00a0So it came very much to my surprise that there are different types and flavours of whiskys, quite similar to wines. Whiskys can smell like certain fruits, have\u00a0levels of smokiness, can be floral, and can also be quite mild.<\/p>\n

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You can also blend whiskys, and it’s not just a matter of pouring two or three types together, it’s a science. A few millilitres too much of one type can completely change the blend.<\/p>\n

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To end our evening of whisky blending, we got to try a shot\u00a0of the best whisky blend in Scotland: Johnnie Walker Blue Label.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheers, to Scotland!<\/em><\/p>\n