Driving directly, Nashville to Atlanta is approximately four and a half hours. But who wants to drive four and a half hours with no stop offs en route? Luckily a little place called Lynchburg is along the route and anyone who’s been in a pub or walked along a liquor aisle in the supermarket will have seen the name Lynchburg many a time. It’s the home of Jack Daniel’s distillery, and the contents of every bottle, in every part of the world is still made in this little Tennessee town.

I’d picked possibly the best time to visit the Highlands area, end of Autumn, because the colours on the trees and the heather on the hills were absolutely stunning. Yellows into golds, reds, ambers, ochre. We’ve all seen the pictures, but in real life, it truly stops you in your tracks. The times I was driving through the countryside with my mouth agape, lost for words, were numerous…