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loria Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 1:19 AM |
i really really enjoyed Edinburgh, but i hear from locals there that it really is a bit of a 'non Scot' sort of place because there are so many tourists and immigrants that live there, so you don't really get a full Scottish experience.
not quite sure how right that is but i liked my time there very much.
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Tracey982 Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 8:32 AM |
lulu07 wrote: Which part of Scotland would you recommend
I would recommend Aberdeen, because I live there!!! |
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DavesUrMan Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 12:34 PM |
I would deffinately recommend Dundee - from castles and museums, to the culture corner at the west end, and the gorgeous beaches and tales of comedy and tragedy, its lovely.
If you swing by this route deffinately go to Fife, then you may as well go to edinburgh.
Wouldn't reccomend Glasgow at all, personally.
Inverness is nice but now rather cliche'd.
Overall, I'd say visit the wester islands, or the shetlands or orkenys.
:D |
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Andrew Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 12:48 PM |
DavesUrMan wrote: I would definitely recommend Dundee - from castles and museums, to the culture corner at the west end, and the gorgeous beaches and tales of comedy and tragedy, it's lovely.
If you swing by this route definitely go to Fife, then you may as well go to Edinburgh.
Wouldn't recommend Glasgow at all, personally.
Inverness is nice but now rather cliched.
Overall, I'd say visit the Western Isles, or the Shetlands or Orkneys.
:D
...and don't get me started on trying to describe Dundee as being full of culture
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Gladly (the cross-eyed bear) Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 12:58 PM |
[quote="DavesUrMan"] I would deffinately recommend Dundee - from castles and museums, to the culture corner at the west end, and the gorgeous beaches and tales of comedy and tragedy, its lovely.
If you swing by this route deffinately go to Fife, then you may as well go to edinburgh.
Wouldn't reccomend Glasgow at all, personally.
Boring and predictable. |
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lulu07 Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 1:17 PM |
loria wrote: i really really enjoyed Edinburgh, but i hear from locals there that it really is a bit of a 'non Scot' sort of place because there are so many tourists and immigrants that live there, so you don't really get a full Scottish experience.
not quite sure how right that is but i liked my time there very much.
Well that's where I've decided on so I'll just be another tourist ;) |
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kiwi Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 1:55 PM |
| the islands...any of the islands...edinburgh is great, if a bit touristy, but still one of the nicer places i've been. |
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DavesUrMan Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 2:25 PM |
Andrew wrote: DavesUrMan wrote: I would definitely recommend Dundee - from castles and museums, to the culture corner at the west end, and the gorgeous beaches and tales of comedy and tragedy, it's lovely.
If you swing by this route definitely go to Fife, then you may as well go to Edinburgh.
Wouldn't recommend Glasgow at all, personally.
Inverness is nice but now rather cliched.
Overall, I'd say visit the Western Isles, or the Shetlands or Orkneys.
:D
...and don't get me started on trying to describe Dundee as being full of culture
I don't think that Glasgow, Europe's drug capital, is the best example. Dundee is full of culture, but you have to venture outside of the city centre to get the best of it. The fullest of culture would be edinburgh or perhaps even stirling from a historical point of view.
Perhaps in Glasgow everything technical means culture, but over here on the east coast, a few typos on a really crappy keboard thats currently about 7 feet away from the sensor, doesn't constitute a lack of culture.
Oh, add that - I forgot - Stirling is really nice in the middle and obviously off to the wallace monument - most people go for the castle and forget the monument, the hospital, the old jail, the coronation spot of mary queen of scots and JAmes VI and lots of other lovely surprises |
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DavesUrMan Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 2:32 PM |
loria wrote: i really really enjoyed Edinburgh, but i hear from locals there that it really is a bit of a 'non Scot' sort of place because there are so many tourists and immigrants that live there, so you don't really get a full Scottish experience.
not quite sure how right that is but i liked my time there very much.
The same goes for inverness, Glasgow, and to an extent St Andrews. St Andrews is fantastic but you cannot move for the golf obsessed tourists (nameley americans! bless em') But I don't think I've ever spoken to a scottish person whilst in inverness, and rarely in edinburgh. The buildings and the history are still there, but the people have vamoused - probably to Berwick ;) |
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DavesUrMan Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 2:39 PM |
Tracey982 wrote: lulu07 wrote: Which part of Scotland would you recommend
I would recommend Aberdeen, because I live there!!!
Nothin' like the granite city and its jelly-fish infested beach ;) Lovely people up round hya' :D |
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Andrew Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 3:22 PM |
DavesUrMan wrote:
I don't think that Glasgow, Europe's drug capital
A Dundee resident criticising Glasgow for having a drug problem.
The amount of shite you spew out really is most worrying, almost as worrying as the thought you might actually believe any of it.
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The Judderman Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 4:07 PM |
To any visitor to Scotland you have to give the same advice :
You can't see everything so decide what you'd really like :
1) Scenery - Highlands & Islands, up the West coast.
2) Castles - Edinburgh & Stirling
3) Nightlife - Glasgow & Edinburgh
4) Shopping - Glasgow
5) Monsters - Inverness (and Paisley...)
Someone else recommended the West End of Glasgow - I think having a drink in Ashton Lane when the sun is out is one of the finest placest to be in the world - and that includes Manhatten & Barcelona!! |
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AbsolutPurple Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 4:32 PM |
The Judderman wrote: To any visitor to Scotland you have to give the same advice :
You can't see everything so decide what you'd really like :
1) Scenery - Highlands & Islands, up the West coast.
2) Castles - Edinburgh & Stirling
3) Nightlife - Glasgow & Edinburgh
4) Shopping - Glasgow
5) Monsters - Inverness (and Paisley...)
Someone else recommended the West End of Glasgow - I think having a drink in Ashton Lane when the sun is out is one of the finest placest to be in the world - and that includes Manhatten & Barcelona!!
6) Village idiot : DavesUrMan |
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lulu07 Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 5:23 PM |
Andrew wrote: DavesUrMan wrote:
I don't think that Glasgow, Europe's drug capital
A Dundee resident criticising Glasgow for having a drug problem.
The amount of shite you spew out really is most worrying, almost as worrying as the thought you might actually believe any of it.
Take a couple of deep breaths to calm down |
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DavesUrMan Posted Fri 10 Aug, 2007 6:55 PM |
Andrew wrote: DavesUrMan wrote:
I don't think that Glasgow, Europe's drug capital
A Dundee resident criticising Glasgow for having a drug problem.
The amount of shite you spew out really is most worrying, almost as worrying as the thought you might actually believe any of it.
I think its pretty irrelevant when the statistics on the radio last year and through the news reports showed Glasgow as being Europe's worst city for violence and drugs - perhaps if you kept up with politics and the world outside Glasgow (something glasweigans find very difficult) you would have realised that. The rest of Scotland seems to know how bad Glasgow is, yet glasgow always seems compeltely unaware... |
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