Monday 18th Interesting time in the Duty Free shop at Belfast airport, when I asked the guy for advice as to a nice whiskey to buy for my next hosts. He took the question rather more seriously than I'd expected, getting out 2 books - the first, a comprehensive "Whiskey Bible" with ratings and reviews for every (legal) whiskey in the world, with much-loved, dog-eared pages, and scribbles in the margins; and the other, his own, handwritten notebook, chronicling every whiskey he'd ever tasted! Only in Ireland, I suspect! Anyway, he pressed me to sample a particular one (I would've felt rude saying 'No'!) and then steered me towards buying a 15y/o Bushmills single malt. Then, probably only because I'd had a drink, I ended up buying them a bottle of Piper as well. And a
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