Where do I travel in Scotland? I have mostly scotish blood and want to check it out. Is there a night life? Where to backpack? Where to avoid?
Where do I travel in Scotland? I have mostly scotish blood and want to check it out. Is there a night life?
>Where do I travel in Scotland?
Whitburn
google "north coast 500" and stay in some local places along the way
>I have mostly scotish blood
uh oh. are you a septic who wears a kilt and eats haggis flavoured burgers on st andrew's day? if so just fuck off or we are going to beat you up like that guy in transpotting
the nightlife is the block around glasgows main train station
Fucking hate that. Still not nearly as prevalent as the "Irish American" whose one ancestor came over during the potato famine though yet still clings to it because it's his only identity besides being a hideous ginger mutt.
OP the answer you're looking for is the north coast 500 but you need to rent a car in Scotland. A lot of fags from America just public transport city to city, that isn't the way. Nightlife though Glasgow is superior to every other city. Edinburgh will be good if you only want to party with other tourists, or if you're under 23. If you're over 23 you're about to feel really old real quick when you go out because of it's university population.
I'm 27, you're telling me I'll feel old going out there?
Thanks I'll check them out
Fuck out my thread autists
>Im 27
I went when I was 27 and felt old when I went out for sure. If you're there when uni isn't in session you might be alright because most of the people out will be tourists who can afford to go to Scotland and not brokepackers.
I can literally trace my family history up to the jacobite wars retard
Wow cool guy you can trace where 4% of your DNA came from, fucking mutt.
Now do yours
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>Selling DNA data to megacorps
>Paying for the privilege
>+21 regions
anon pls
you don't understand american culture
european ancestor roots are for entertainment it doesn't matter how you feel about it
You'll want to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh, dundee isn't really worth bothering with and Aberdeen is absolute shit. Inverness is tiny and touristy crap.
All the nice scenery is on the west coast, you can go up from Glasgow to loch Lomond then Oban (various stops in-between like the Falls of Falloch), then up to Fort William if you want to climb Ben Nevis. If you still need more places to go then head up to Aviemore and come back down through Braemar. You should probably also try and do some sort of boat tour.
Anon don’t come here and start going on about your great grandfather from Dumbarton, no one cares.
What do you want to do? How long have you got? Anywhere you want to visit for family reasons?
Anyway. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the only cities worth dealing with. Edinburgh is pretty, Glasgow has nightlife. Don’t spend too long in urban areas, hire a car and visit the scenic spots from Argyll up to Caithness. Islands are a bitch to get too but offer some genuinely outstanding scenery and are quieter too.
More precise recommendations need some details. Do you want to go up big mountains? See wildlife? Birds? Marine mammals? Visit Iron Age sites? Eat local seafood? Pull a ginger chick (or dude, I don’t judge)? Multi day hikes? Give yourself cirrhosis from whisky? Eat a deep fried pizza and macaroni cheese pies?
I'm also going to Scotland too
I'm more into the history stuff so tell me about Iron Age stuff
What exactly is there to do in Glasgow seems boring?
>Pull a ginger chick
This would also be very nice.
>what exactly is there to do in Glasgow seems boring?
Just because it doesn't have a lot of picturesque stuff for your instagram doesn't make a city boring.
Ok, then what dose it have then?
> Iron Age
There are stone circles that are IMO better than Stonehenge plus you can usually just walk up to them (Callanish is one). Standing stones litter the place, occasionally someone finds one in their garden. There’s one in some soulless estate in Edinburgh. Old forts and duns (lake fortress) can be found everywhere. There are brochs - tower houses thousands of years old, some still in good condition eg Mousa. Skara Brae is a phenomenal historic site. St Kilda is a very remote archipelago where people in the 1930s lived like it was two thousand years ago
Only problem - a lot of the very good sites are in the Western or Northern isles and these are a real pig to get to. But you could spend a month on the outer Hebrides going to these places and still not see it all. Two weeks would let you see a lot of world class stuff. (Got a fortnight in Orkney planned soon).
>Glasgow
Looks crap. Is chock full of soul and history. Go on the piss down the Southside or West End and report back. It is probably my favourite city in the world to actually live in. Edinburgh, on the other hand, is boring and crap.
>Gingers
heh. Go to any city centre or market town on a Friday night and try your luck in the pubs anon
Gretna Green to get married.
Glasgow is a much better night out that Edinburgh - excluding events such as Fringe etc.
I can feel a real gritty soul vibrating through the cobbles of that city, as opposed to the tourist-trap atmosphere felt when wandering central Edinburgh.
It is also just as historic, and good for sightseeing, having once been the ‘Second City’ of the Empire.
See Edinburgh, sure. But experience Glasgow.
I spent a week there and that wasn't enough. I flew into Edinburgh. Did a day trip to St. Andrews. It was very nice and had a good student culture. My Scottish blood came from Inverness, so that's where I spent most of my time. Inverness is a quaint and comfy town right in the middle of the Highlands. That would be a great place to start.