Scotland aka: L'Ecosse, Alba

I would love to visit Scotland. My family is actually directly related to William Wallace and it would be really cool to see everything there

My husband took me to Scotland for our 10th anniversary. We stayed 2 weeks. It was wonderful!

i’ve never liked it here.
i feel like its behind with the times.
i don’t even know why, it just does not
appeal to me in the slightest.
when i went i was happy to be coming home.

AMAZING! my mothers entire family is scottish and after my uncle traced our geneology back to the 1500s, we decided we had to go to get in touch with our roots.

How I did it: lots of planning, plane travel, and staying at adorable hole in the wall bed and breakfasts where we were sometimes the only people there! also, since we were going there to primarily see where my mothers ancestors lived and worked, we had to investigate my uncles research and pinpoint planes where our ancestors had actually been- we even found a castle called calaverock where an ancient ancestor of mine tutored a princess. for several days we even got to stay with some directly related living scottish relatives of ours.

Lessons & tips: people in scotland DO speak english, but they speak it with such a thick accent in some areas (like out in the countryside where we were) that you have to pay attention and listen very carefully to them, repeat what you think they said if you have to just to be sure. keep an open mind about their culture and food- YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EAT HAGGIS WHEN YOU ARE THERE, DONT WORRY! haggis is more of a joke they play on tourists rather than something they would eat on a regular basis. and besides awesome “tourist” attractions like william wallaces (bravehearts) castle and loch ness (as in the loch ness monster), the cows in scotland are fuzzy and brown and the baby ones look like teddy bears! AWW!

I want to go to the wickerman festival!

Maybe it’s because I only went to the eastern half of the country, but Scotland wasn’t that great. In fact, it’s old and kind of crusty, with some nice nature but everything in cities closes at 6 and after that there’s only pub culture. Next time, I’m only going to the western side, where all the pretty stuff is.

Scotland is amazingly beautiful and the people are the nicest you’ll meet anywhere in the world!

We waited until night and jumped the fence at Urquhart castle and wandered around the ruins while bats swarmed overhead. Walking back to town was probably the only time I’ve ever literally not been able to see my hand in front of my face while outside.

I never thought all that much about my Scottish heritage, but going there somehow felt like coming home. An amazing and beautiful place, except for the whole driving on the other side of the road thing.

Just took a quick 4 day auto tour which included Edinburgh, Stirling, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, Inverness, Loch Ness, and Glasgow. GREAT time.