Tuesday, November 25, 2025

What was the most interesting thing about Scotland for me?

I was in Scotland with my mother and 10 year old daughter in 1999 and we had a great time especially in Edinburgh Castle. She really loved it there and also loved the Cairngorm mountains where at that time the reindeer all ran free. Later when we returned in 2011 I guess people had been hunting the reindeer illegally and so they were sort of in a zoo like place where they pulled Santa's Sleighs and things like this for tourists to get money to protect the native Reindeer of the Cairngorm mountains.

Later in 2011 I went with that same daughter and her boyfriend at the time and my younger daughter who was about 14 I think and my wife and we started in Edinburgh and Glascow and then drove up to Aviemore and the Cairngorms again. However, then we drove in our rental car up to Inverness where the Loch Ness Monster is supposed to live and then to Aberdeen to visit a friend of my wife's and her husband and children who lived there then.

I think my favorite things in Scotland likely are the Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh Scotland and the Caingorm mountains around Aviemore, Scotland. Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series is basically built around Edinburgh Castle with the names especially regarding Hogwarts wizarding school which is why Scottish and English people tend to love the Harry Potter series because in some ways it agrees with legends in Scottish and English folklore.

Also, some Scottish dialects I found I didn't understand a word they said. Mostly because they use descriptors which have entirely different meanings to Americans.

Even in England a Crescent Wrench is a Spanner and a Boot is I think the trunk of a car and there are many words we have that have a completely different meanings in England than in America. And they have exactly the same problems with Americans or Canadians or Australians or New Zealanders too.

No comments:

Post a Comment