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Re: Going to Scotland
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Originally Posted by Sooh
Re: Going to Scotland
I really mean no offence to Duke Malcolm, but, how shall I put this, Dundee isn't usually on the Scotland tourist trail.
Ben Nevis by the tourist trail isn't very much worth doing IMHO. Its basically a straight slog up the side of what happens to be the highest mountain in the UK, but which doesn't otherwise have much to recommend it. If I was only going to do one walk in Scotland it probably wouldn't be that one. if you must, and if you are a reasonably experienced walker, I'd recommend taking a taxi to the car park at the head of Glen Nevis, going up the Ben from the south, and then coming down the tourist trail (which will leave you more or less back in Fort William). But please make sure you have reasonable equipment. Even in the summer and even on a popular mountain like Ben Nevis the highlands deserve respect. It can get claggy, cold, and wet very quickly.
By strange coincidence I will be in Fort William at the same time as you, although only briefly as I am heading out the same morning for a few days up in the mountains. Fort William's a nice little town, you'll like it.
Oh yeah: bring insect repellent. The strongest you can find.
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Re: Going to Scotland
Give the man a medal. [Far too kind.]
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Re: Going to Scotland
Dundee? Well... the folks up in the freezing north that is 'Aberdeen' never mention that name. (It is always referred to as "Scumdee") However as an Englishman I am obviously totally impartial etc. etc. etc...
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Re: Going to Scotland
Bah! Dundee is a beautiful, sunkissed place! We have long clean beaches, a beautiful waterfront, historic tall ships, lovely old buildings. And a City Centre bustling during the day, as busy at midnight (albeit "the polis", to use the patois, and drunks and jakeys) as it is during the day.
The youth are kind and polite and helpful (whilst they hold a knife to you and you try to take out your change).
And the are plenty of women (although I wouldn't recommend it since they're all pregnant or drunk or on dubious subtances, often all three; and it's mostly 14 or 15 year olds that go to nightclubs whilst their mother watches their baby at home)
Hmm... yes, better avoid Dundee. Unless you have a specific maritime interest.
And I do not vomit. I am deeply offended by that comment. Most people in Dundee can handle their drinks.
Last edited by Duke Malcolm; 05-30-2007 at 10:09.
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Re: Going to Scotland
Ned central, indeed. Divert the man to the vastly superior city of Aberdeen and
I might push the boat out and buy him a drink. Not his missus, though - we're
too tight for that.
it's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come
Re: Going to Scotland
Scaberdeen is quite good for cheap drinks. And a lack of underager people in pubs and clubs...
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Re: Going to Scotland
Scaberdeen? Seems we've not become any more imaginative in Scumdee then,
eh? Ah well.
it's the **** that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come
Re: Going to Scotland
But they have Dundee United.
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Re: Going to Scotland
Or Edinb*gger or Sh*tegow...
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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