Country discussion: Scotland

[Kurt.]

Visited Scotland for the first time earlier this year, highlight of the trip was a lovely barmaid in a pub in Oban
Low point was paying £14 for 2 pints in a pub in a little village called Plockton

Will visit again soon

 

[COYBL25]

Midges no joke - I've seen them darken the sky in the west Highlands.

Only really bad for a few months - smidge repellent does work though.

They`re brutal aren`t they and seem to be spreading slowly southwards, with climate change.

I`d never experienced them, until I ran in a race, in a forest by Trawsfyndd last year.

Nothing prepares you for your first experience of them and getting eaten alive.

It`s like a black mist settling on you and then the pain starts !

 

[blueloon]

I’m one of those few people who’ve lived 20 years in each of Wales, England and Scotland . Scotland is wonderful , it’s …. Ah , I see the problem where this is going. No, no you guys wouldn’t like Scotland , best stay where you are now , maybe visit Edinburgh or Glasgow for a few days every couple of years to get a feel for the true Scotland , . Newcastle and Carlisle are far enough for most folk anyway.

 

[Kurt.]

They`re brutal aren`t they and seem to be spreading slowly southwards, with climate change.

I`d never experienced them, until I ran in a race, in a forest by Trawsfyndd last year.

Nothing prepares you for your first experience of them and getting eaten alive.

It`s like a black mist settling on you and then the pain starts !

I ran the sixth trail race in portmeirion a few years ago…. Probably my fastest ever 6k running from them buggers

 

[DavidH]

A country of two halves. The two big cities and some of the bigger towns are surrounded by utter toilets with some downright horrible people (no different to most places tbh). The rest of it is absolutely stunning. I still don't know why they filmed Bravheart in Ireland. Weirdos.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

A country of two halves. The two big cities and some of the bigger towns are surrounded by utter toilets with some downright horrible people (no different to most places tbh). The rest of it is absolutely stunning. I still don't know why they filmed Bravheart in Ireland. Weirdos.

Some places are like the land that time
forgot and should be flattened and rebuilt.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Me in a Chippy somewhere near Inverness

Me: “2 portions of fish and chips please”
Jock: “Sorry we dinna dae that ere” “we do fish suppers”
Me: “what’s in a fish supper”?
Jock: “Fish and chips pal”.

!!!!!!!

 

[Tigger]

Love Scotland, if I didnt need a job near people I'd move up to the highlands in a heartbeat. Also loads of happy memories from holidays in North Berwick as a kid, beautiful coast.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Love Scotland, if I didnt need a job near people I'd move up to the highlands in a heartbeat. Also loads of happy memories from holidays in North Berwick as a kid, beautiful coast.

The man who has lived as a hermit for 40 years

Ken Smith lives without electricity or running water in a hand-made log cabin on the banks of a remote loch.

www.bbc.co.uk

Scottish ‘hermit’ living off the grid rescued after SOS signal picked up in Texas - National | Globalnews.ca

An elderly man who lives off the grid in a remote forest in the Scottish Highlands was rescued after falling ill, and his distress signal was picked up thousands of kilometres away, across the ocean in Texas.

globalnews.ca

Gruinard Island?

 

[LEONARD]

 

[Martin Alvito]

Glasgow: great city. Just don't talk about fitba.

Edinburgh: great city ruined by the posh Scots Oxbridge equivalents.

Stirling: most boring city in the UK.

Aberdeen: great city ruined by oil industry hipsters drinking in overpriced bars.

Newcastle: a stain on Scotland.

I like Stirling. Don't much like Glasgow. Aberdeen didn't have the hipsters the last time I was there, but it's been a bit.

They export the best booze on the planet.

I understand most of the natives just fine, but the few I can't understand might as well be speaking a different language.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I like Stirling. Don't much like Glasgow. Aberdeen didn't have the hipsters the last time I was there, but it's been a bit.

They export the best booze on the planet.

I understand most of the natives just fine, but the few I can't understand might as well be speaking a different language.

 

[Martin Alvito]

I doubt we drink the same whisky, somehow.

 

[chicoazul]

It’s my ambition to retire there. Amongst good people in a beautiful land that hates the English. Destiny.

 

[Leylo]

It’s my ambition to retire there. Amongst good people in a beautiful land that hates the English. Destiny.

Here's me thinking Bootle was English