Winners of the shot competition in Zug

Gordon, the tour organiser had taken two stainless steel curling stones with us to Bavaria.  Curling stones are traditionally made of blue hone granite from Ailsa Craig (fairy Rock), an island in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland, formed from the volcanic plug of an extinct volcano.  Research has shown that the granite on Ailsa Craig has an unusual crystalline composition that has a distinctive appearance but a uniform hardness, a favourite material for the making of curling stones.  The prized high-density blue hone variety is found nowhere else in reasonable quantities apart from the island's north quarry, and it is used as the running band - the section in contact with the ice - on every curling stone in the world.
During a time when it was thought the granite on Ailsa Craig was dwindling, other materials were sourced for curling stones, one of them being stainless steel. This wasn't successful but a few SS curling stones remain and Gordon had two of them for a competition in Zug, where each player from both Scotland and Switzerland had one stone to throw nearest to the button. Amazingly I was the Scottish player who won and my prize was a bottle of Etter kirsch, a very highly regarded spirit in Switzerland! Not wishing to be rude, it is the vilest drink I've ever tasted, but the whole day was great fun.