Whisky trail through Keith
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A TREASURE hunt through Keith will put whisky lovers to the test.
The 21 verses of Robert Burns’ poem Scotch Drink have been split up and a single verse put in the windows of shops and businesses.
The challenge for visitors coming to Keith, the first Scots Toun, as part of the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is to find all 21 verses.
Marguerite Cruickshank, of Mid Street’s Mither Tongue shop, came up with the idea and has designed a Burns-themed poster carrying the verses that will appear in the windows.
Rhona Patterson, of Keith and Strathisla Regeneration Partnership (KSRP), distributed the verses and the only clue she is prepared to give is that verse one is in the window of Boogie Woogie in Regent Square, Fife-Keith.
"After that the trail will take folk through Fife-Keith and up to Keith," she added.
Ms Patterson, along with a team of volunteers that included the local Scouts, spent last Sunday putting up 73 flags on Mid Street, Regent Street and also Regent Square.
There are whisky-related flags, along with others that celebrate the town’s farming heritage and its proud use of the Scots language, all of which were funded by KSRP through the Moray Towns’ Partnership.
Shops and businesses in the town have embraced the whisky theme this year.
"When we were up and down ladders putting up the flags we were really impressed with the effort that everyone has put in. It’s brilliant and is a real welcome to all the visitors that the whisky festival will bring to the town," said Ms Patterson.
It is hoped many visitors on the whisky trains run by the Keith-Dufftown Railway Association will stop off in Keith and explore what the town has to offer.
