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Doesn't everyone get piped into dinner? Golly gosh, I learn something new in here every day. Great pics, LC. And Clancy - that's my kinda rock you're sitting on. I'd have my flute and be playing a slow air. Don't you fine Scotsmen start weeping into your haggis - but I actually managed to dance my very first Highland Fling on Saturday. I've only done Irish dancing before and it felt kind of odd to be able to point my toes and move my arms from being glued to my sides.. There were two pipers playing indoors while we all danced too. I may never hear again (but I LOVE the pipes). We were told this is a fertility dance - based on stags in rut. I thought you Scots were above that kind of naughtiness.

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There's something otherworldly, eldrich about a solitary piper playing a lament...

SnoozeControl wrote: Those are damn good photos, Clancy! :-4they certainly are beautiful!:) ...Clancy, do you know where that kirk is from "four weddings and a funeral"?

thanks Clancy! it's not the church where the funeral was held, it's a beautiful and very old stone ediface.

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f ... htmlhere's the link Clancy was kind enough to send me.

Wedding No. 3, with Carrie marrying the ‘stiff in the skirt’ at the chapel of ‘Glenthrist Castle, Perthshire’, was filmed in Surrey at albury park just southeast of guildford, which is open May to September. this is the church i admired, not the one in the industrial area. they made it appear it was in Scotland.

lady cop wrote: GMC was kind enough to send me these pics...oh Scotland is so beautiful! my mother loved it there.




Go to Tennessee. Its closer and they have inbreeding. You cant put a price on that kind of entertainment.

Nomad wrote: Go to Tennessee. Its closer and they have inbreeding. You cant put a price on that kind of entertainment.i prefer bagpipes to banjos. :yh_bigsmi

SnoozeControl wrote: Is this supposed to be funny or are you really that biased? In nearly every post I see of yours, you have some sort of disparaging remark to make about Americans.


Don't know where you get that idea from. I think you read too much in to things and assume prejudice where none exists. We have a long tradition of taking the mickey out of cultural differences and generally taking the ****-or of you prefer the politer version-taking the mickey.

Next time you decide to make a comment about kilt wearing sheep shagging scotsman living in caves I will probably assume you are taking the mickey, and if it is an attempt at an insult I will probably devote at least two seconds to worrying about it.

I am not going to waste my time worrying about overly sensitive americans who can't tell the difference between having their leg pulled and being deliberately insulted and choose to find offence where none exists.

posted by clancy

Well don't be misled, here. Our towns & cities are just like any other place. There are good bits, and dodgy bits.

....but up north, It's gorgeous, and the natives don't bite unless you ask them too




Don't forget the midges. They bite whether you want them to or not.

posted by ladycop

i'm jealous. i want to live in the midst of such beauty. in my next life i guess. no ugliness, no crime, nobody trying to kill you.


It's a land of contrasts. Scotlnd is one of the most heavily industrialised countries on the planet with industeial syesores you would not believe. If you like indistrrial archeology it's also a great place to visit.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/u ... young.html

This is the biggest landmark where I live-the spoil from generations of mining for oil shale just piled up in to a mountain big enough to make it a landmark.

The hills up north is lonely and beautiful because all the people got shoved off the land and most scattered across the world. It's beautiful and sad as well.

Keep your eyes open for this one if you go and see the da Vinci code

http://www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk/images.htm

Personally I think the scaffolding adds a certain something that will no doubt be lacking in the film.

im lucky enough to be in the north east & to be honest with you the further north i could move the better

ive visited many countries, some classed as paradise but every place classed as paradise has tornado's or something equally awful to put up with

IMO there is nowhere safer with such panoramic beauty than scotland, but i would say that, afterall im scottish :rolleyes:

(Jives tries his best to imitate a scottish accent) Sure'n I LOVE the Scottish!

Every since I was little and I saw James Doohan play Scotty on Start Trek, I have believed that the Scotts are just the coolest people on the planet!:D

Jives wrote: (Jives tries his best to imitate a scottish accent) Sure'n I LOVE the Scottish!

Every since I was little and I saw James Doohan play Scotty on Start Trek, I have believed that the Scotts are just the coolest people on the planet!:D


we're probably the coldest people on the planet jives, summer lasting all of two weeks approx

Beautiful pictures Clancy just breathe taking..!! I have a bit of Scotish blood in me my Grandfather on my dads of the family was from Edinburgh Scotland. Came from a rather large family had 8 brothers I think. Growing up I could hardly understand a word he was saying. My family has always wanted to travel to Scotland, maybe someday... It would be a dream come true..

CARLA wrote: Beautiful pictures Clancy just breathe taking..!! I have a bit of Scotish blood in me my Grandfather on my dads of the family was from Edinburgh Scotland. Came from a rather large family had 8 brothers I think. Growing up I could hardly understand a word he was saying. My family has always wanted to travel to Scotland, maybe someday... It would be a dream come true..


edinburgh is so spectacular & even dare i say cosmipolitan carla, you'd love it

dont listen to clancy run it down, weidgies dont like edinburgh :rolleyes:

kisses to clance - yeah right, gets wellies on