Millton Perth Distillery? (18 Sep 2005)
スコットランドの町では必ずTourist Informationへ立ち寄る。Ordnance Surveyの地図で場所を確かめ、Tourist Informationへ向かった。が、そこには無かった。地図の改訂は数年に1度なのでこういうことはよくある。主要道路には案内板が出ているのでそれを頼りに歩いていくと、そこにはまるで蒸留所のような建物があった。”TI”の看板があるので間違いはない。
スタッフに聞くと、蒸留所ではなく、古い製粉工場とのこと。でもモルトキルンのような建物を見つけると何か宝物を探し当てたような気がする。
When I stay in the town of Scotland, I always go to Tourist Information. Because I can get a street map, a latest time table and some souvenirs. I checked the point of Tourist Information in Perth on the map of Ordnance Survey, then I went to the Tourist Information. But it was nothing.
“Don’t worry!”
Usually, there is a direction board on the main street. When I arrived a Tourist Information, I watched a interesting building. It was like a distillery. There was the sign of “TI”, so I didn’t make a mistake.
I asked to the staff of Tourist Information. According to him, it was a building of old mill.
When I find a building which is like a malt kiln, I feel that I find a treasure.
Old Town And Old Bridge (18 Sep 2005)
Perthの歴史はRiver Tayと親密な関係を持つ。12世紀初めに現在の町がスタートした頃に最初の橋が架けられた。しかしその後の氾濫により何度も橋は流され、17世紀中期より150年ぐらいは橋は造られず、渡し船で渡河していた。
1771年に造られたPerth Bridgeは今もなお、その美しい姿を残している。
Perth’s history has been intimately tied with River Tay. When the town was set up in the early of 12th, the first bridge across the River Tay was build. Over the following for about 5 centuries, the bridge was destroyed many times by the flood of river.
Since the mid of 17th, a bridge hadn’t been build for about 150 years, people went accross the river by the ferry.
After that, the stone bridge, called “Perth Bridge”, has been build in 1771. Now, you can see a beautiful stone bridge in Perth.
