http://www.islayblog.com/ IslayBlog.com, a blog about the Isle of Islay, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Links, news and pictures from Islay. en-gb Copyright 2010, Armin Grewe armin@islayblog.com (Armin Grewe) Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:35:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/images/islayrss.gif http://www.islayblog.com/ 140 70 http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100303-portellen.shtml Remember Alice Hathaway's Reality of Nightmares video I wrote about in January? That's the same Alice who directed Islay High Schools successful FilmG entry. A few days ago I spotted her second own short film has become available online, filmed at Kilchoman Beach: [View Alice's latest offering, 'something in the dark', in the full entry] Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:35:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100303-portellen.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100312-friday144.shtml That's a very busy week finally over. Time to relax over the weekend. I'm not a 'sunbathing on a beach' person, but I wouldn't mind a bit of beach now, in particular an Islay beach. Just for a long beach walk, the wind blowing away the tiredness. So here's the 'Big Strand', Islay's longest of the many beaches: [View the picture of Islay's Big Strand around Laggan Bay in the full entry] Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:26:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100312-friday144.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100311-streetview.shtml Two weeks ago, after Ron had pointed out that there are now Detailed Islay Satellite Images on Microsoft's Bing I wondered how long Google Maps would need to catch up. Well, they kind of have, yet they haven't. The satellite images of Islay on Google Maps are still rather useless. On the other hand Google Maps with Street View now has imagery from many roads on Islay: [More about my favourite Islay views I've found on Google Streetview so far in the full entry] Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100311-streetview.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100310-sequel.shtml OK, I think it's time for another excursion from Islay to Colonsay. Remember the Dogs, Beach, Play, Colonsay entry from February? Well, Marc and the dogs have been back on a beach on Colonsay, for a Strand Walk (West) to be precise. Here's video of it: [Watch the video of Marc and his dogs on the beach in Colonsay in the full entry] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100310-sequel.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100309-mixed.shtml Every once in a while I come across something weird and wonderful on this internet thing which has some kind of Islay connection. Something that doesn't necessesarily fit into the usual categories. This evening I've decided to point you towards three of these finds from the last week or so. An Islay related painting, a plane named after Islay and some Islay papercraft: [More about the three Islay web finds in the full entry] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:41:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100309-mixed.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100308-shortest.shtml Running rather late again this evening after a very long day at work. Not much time left in the day today for Islay blogging, so I thought I just post what I think is likely to be the shortest Islay video I'll ever post. Here it is, a full amazing 6 seconds long: [Watch what could well be the shortest Islay video ever (and read about a related challenge) in the full entry] Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:07:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100308-shortest.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100307-roundup114.shtml Two Islay blog entries today, after the announcement of 'Go Islay' Goes Live this morning it's now time for the traditional Sunday evening content, the Islay blogging roundup. Considering we are well into March now I hope to bring you the first proper spring on Islay and Jura entries soon, so far there seem to be only very tentative signs of it. Here's what the blogs have been writing about Islay and Jura over the last week or so: [More about Islay and Jura in the blogs in the first week of March 2010 in the full entry] Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:57:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100307-roundup114.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100307-goislay.shtml Having known about it for a while and being told yesterday it had now officially gone live this entry should have been written last night. But then I got carried away learning, setting up and playing with my new toy. So with a days delay the introduction of a new Islay accommodation website, Go Islay, for Bayview at Lagavulin: [More about the new 'Go Islay' website and Bayview cottage in the full entry] Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:28:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100307-goislay.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100305-friday143.shtml It's getting a bit tight this evening for the Friday Islay picture, not much left in my Friday as I'm writing this. Very tired after another hard week, but I didn't want to leave you without an Islay picture this evening. Earlier this week I wrote about about Islands on the Isle of Islay and posted pictures under the island_on_islay tag in the Islay Pictures photoblog. It's probably not a huge surprise that I picked another one for the series this evening: [See the picture of the crannog in Loch Laingeadail in the full entry] Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:52:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100305-friday143.shtml Armin Grewe http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100304-maclellan.shtml It's not really new news any more, The Ileach already mentioned it in their Twitter feed a few days ago and it probably popped up on a few whisky forums. Now there is a bit more information available about an interesting move between two distilleries on Islay: John MacLellan currently of Bunnahabhain is moving to Kilchoman distillery on the 3rd of May. [Read more about John's move to Kilchoman in the full entry] Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:47:00 GMT http://www.islayblog.com/2010entries/20100304-maclellan.shtml Armin Grewe