Highland, High Tea, High Cheese

On a 2 day trip up to the mystical (and very rainy) Scottish highlands, I sampled a local cheese called "Gauda". One might think that it's gouda pronounced with a thick pikey accent but my waitress assured me that was not the case. I have to say it it had a unique flavour of it's own. Soft with tiny airy holes similar to havarti but a little harder and with a nutty aroma. I have been searching and googling to find out more about it but my search comes up empty. I guess that means a second more in depth trip is in order. Below, "gauda" with oatcakes and blackberry jame. Toast and Marmite and coffee at the Torridon Hotel. Loch Torridon, Scotland.

http://www.thetorridon.com/