A Blog about the Isle of Jura off the West Coast of Scotland
Posted in video on Aug 30th, 2012
I’ve given the Jura Blog a big update today with a completely different layout and to “celebrate” that fact I’ve searched for, and found, a nice Jura video. It’s a compilation of nice pictures and accompanied by some great music, Samba Pa Ti, originally by Santana. Very much worth looking so enjoy!
Posted in people, video, Whisky and Distillery on Jan 7th, 2011
I was reading the Isle of Jura newsletter today and came across a very interesting entry by Willie Cochrane, the Jura Distillery Manager: “Some of you may have got a nice Jura surprise the other night if you were sitting down to watch the TV and spotted Jura – the island, the distillery and me! [...]
In the weekend from 25-27 September the annual Jura Music Festival was held, this year for the 16th time already. Among the many artists such as the Blazin’ Fiddles, Karen Matheson and Michael McGoldrick to name a few were the Islay Pipe Band as well. In the video below you can see and hear the [...]
Posted in video on Sep 3rd, 2009
Andrew Dubber posted quite a few Jura Videos on Vimeo, a Youtube lookalike with a somewhat higher quality video. Apparently Andrew visited the Isle of Jura in spring and created some very interesting videos of the island. In the next weeks I will try and post more videos from Andrew but I will start with [...]
Posted in video, Whisky and Distillery on May 28th, 2009
The Ileach Newspaper was present on Jura and made a beautiful video of the Jura Distillery Open Day of 2009. Jura Distillery Open Day 28th May from ileach newspaper on Vimeo.
Carl Reavey, editor of the Ileach Newspaper, went out last Monday to capture day two of the Scottish Ultra Marathon that started on Islay on May 3rd and lasts for six days. The Ultra Marathon has two stages on Islay and four on Jura. On Sunday the weather was pretty good but it broke down [...]
Posted in video on Apr 26th, 2009
I found a nice video on youtube from a group of friends circumnavigating the Isle of Jura. The video contains moving images, beautiful pictures and great music. Worth having a look at!
Posted in video on Sep 7th, 2008
I have uploaded a video today to youtube from the Isle of Jura which I took in 2005. For some reason it took me over three years to actually make it available for Youtube. You can see a few pictures combined with video footage, sometimes from the driving car. I have tried to find matching [...]
