I love scotland

vanoonoo

I do. and I just wanted to tell you and share that with you. it has fab scenery, great transport links, excellently hospitable people, lots of irn bru, amazing architecture and a proud and totally biased grasp of its own history which I admire. so. hoorah for scotland.

trafalgar_2

Me too:) ..................

nmealey

sounds like a great place, must be a differnt Scotland than I live in though ! "excellent transport links..."

trafalgar_2

nmealey wrote:

sounds like a great place, must be a differnt Scotland than I live in though ! "excellent transport links..."

I did my tours by car so I couldn't possibly comment .............though some of the tracks getting to John O'Groats were fun:D I took the scenic route.

Allexie

vanoonoo wrote:

.... it has fab scenery, great transport links, excellently hospitable people, lots of irn bru, amazing architecture and a proud and totally biased grasp of its own history

Don't forget the men in skirts

vanoonoo

nmealey wrote:

sounds like a great place, must be a differnt Scotland than I live in though ! "excellent transport links..."

heehee - nothing is perfect but believe me, compared to london (norf and sarf) and east anglia the links in the lothians, fife and clydesdale are fantastic! except for maybe the rail replacement bus service I had to endure between somewhere on the route from glasgow to edinburgh which felt like it went via inverurie. its relatively inexpensive too, for example you can do a cheap day return glasgow to edinburgh for just over £8, where as for me to do a similar length journey from colchester to london its nearly £16 and that doesnt include the travel card needed for central london. I think they are excellent links in my experience (doesnt mean they always work excellently though heehee)

vanoonoo

Allexie wrote:

Don't forget the men in skirts

to use a very scottish phrase *boak*

actually - you are right - mmmm - men in kilts - rhaar! esp when leaping around stripping the willow *grin*

margaret_3

nmealey wrote:

sounds like a great place, must be a differnt Scotland than I live in though ! "excellent transport links..."

It's certainly a different Scotland than the one I live in. I ordered a mobile phone [for next day delivery] last Thursday, and I have been told that I'll not get it until NEXT Thursday.
Perhaps if I lived in central London????
Margaret

Edinburghlass_2

margaret wrote:

It's certainly a different Scotland than the one I live in. I ordered a mobile phone [for next day delivery] last Thursday, and I have been told that I'll not get it until NEXT Thursday.
Perhaps if I lived in central London????
Margaret

Can't have been from Virgin then, cos I ordered from Virgin once on a Saturday morning and it was delivered on the Sunday morning

margaret_3

Yes! It was from Virgin. However, you live in Edinburgh, yes? Not in the sticks!!!!!
Margaret

eaglesrjh

Allexie wrote:

Don't forget the men in skirts

Hey it's not a SKIRT!!! It's a Kilt and dont you forget it! :-)