A Sunday Afternoon In Mabou

This afternoon we headed across the island to a pleasant little town named Mabou. The town sits in the center of Gaelic country and signs have both languages. We drove north along the coast to the Glenora Distillery. They are Canada's only maker of single malt whiskey. Barley is the grain of choice. So, of course we had to try some. It smelled good, but at 64% alcohol it was pretty potent

Our real reason to go to Mabou was to go to the Red Shoe, a pub owned by the Rankin family. These musicians are Canada's premier Celtic performers. Today, the last day of the Celtic Colours Festival, provided us with guitar music by Brian Doyle and Scott Macmillan. They played everything from Van Morrison to Celtic jigs to just "jammin." It was fun! We met a couple from Pennnsylvania at the pub. They are also RVers so we shared stories of places we have visited to places we would still like to go.