Burns Night

RowenaBCAMC
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edited January 2018 in Caravan & Motorhome Chat #1

Help us celebrate all things Scottish and share any plans you have for visiting and touring Scotland in 2018 or any pictures you may have from previous trips. For inspiration have a look at our Scottish Tours page on the Club website. 

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited January 2018 #2

    Burns night is November 5th. Just ask A&E.

  • SteveL
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    edited January 2018 #3

    May is a wonderful time to visit. Often the weather is kind and the midges have not yet appeared in any number.

    From the snows of Cairngorm, to the deep glacial glens, or the spectacular waterfalls, there is plenty to see.

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #4

    Visit an island or two. Seabirds and archaeology on Shetland.

  • huskydog
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    edited January 2018 #5

    were off to Bunree and Garlieston sites in August , going to see if we can hunt down a Haggis smile

  • SteveL
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    edited January 2018 #6

    They sell them at the visitors centre in Culloden. Although you need to check if it's a right handed or left handed one.😬 As they run along sloping hillsides, one set of legs is shorter then the other. The kids fell for it when they were very young. Told to them by one of the rangers at Glencoe.

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #7

    Don't forget the Borders, they have some lovely gardens and buildings and Melrose is a good place to see them.

    NTS Harmony Gardens

    Photos from around Melrose and a view from the club site too. A famous memorial to Robert the Bruce, the mighty Tweed and Melrose Abbey.

  • Tammygirl
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    edited January 2018 #8

    I could say there is nothing spectacular to see in Scotland so don't bother coming wink but you won't listen so we will just have to share our wonderful country with more visitors again yell

    I would add that there is lots of nice places to see do not just stick to the normal tourist traps. 

  • huskydog
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    edited January 2018 #9

    I promise I wont make a mess or barkcool

  • dave the rave
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    edited January 2018 #10

    I hope that you enjoy Garlieston it is in a lovely area.So lovely that we moved to the area from Kent late last year!Whilst there,take time to visit the Galloway Forest and anywhere around the coast,but........please do not tell anyone else....or the area will become busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • dougA
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    edited January 2018 #11

    Already visited Glencoes ski resort this year.

     

    We have also planned our route for April/May. Comments on the following sites are welcome as I may tweak my route yet.

    Culloden Moore Club Site

    Kinlochewe Club Site

    Morvich Club Site

    Bunree Club Site

    Maragowan Club Site

     

     

  • Hedgehurst
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    edited January 2018 #12

    Just like anyone who's been, I could swamp your server with images, but these will have to do! The first two were taken within a short time of each other - crossing the Sound of Sleat on the wonderful ferry, (a car outing, with the caravan parked at Morvich) then looking back from Skye, at the same bit of sea.
    Big Sands at Gairloch - we stayed further up in the town - and  Sunset at the Summer Isles. All last April. We'll be back.

    At Morvich, the site shop had the most wonderful eggs and bread, all local, as well as very helpful staff. We also went "off piste" - into more remote places than the CMC sites, which was highly rewarding.


    Meanwhile I have to pipe the haggis in at a Burns Supper & Dance tomorrow, but playing Northumbrian Smallpipes rather than the monster Great Highland Pipes, which I love but only when someone else is playing them, preferably a little way off!

  • ABM
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    edited January 2018 #13

     HH,  And  I  thought  the  definition  of  a  true  gentleman  was  ==>  Somebody  who  can  play  the  bagpipes  --  But  doesn't. 

     

    Sorry,  sorry,  sorry  that's  only  a  joke,  ( And  only  just  a  joke at  that embarassed )

     

    P.S  --  if  anybody  visits  Melrose  Abbey,  it's  always  worth  heading  up  the  metalwork  to  get  a  photo  of  the  'grotesque'  --  a  pig  playing  the  bagpipes  !!

    I've  teased  a  few  Foreign  tourists  up  there  !!

  • Hedgehurst
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    edited January 2018 #14

    Don't worry, no offence taken. It's a very old joke embarassed
    If I were being picky I'd point out that the smallpipes were developed so that more genteel people could play them, but this isn't the place for a history of bagpipes lecture!


    And that Melrose Pig is a famous image among historical bagpipe enthusiasts, though I've yet to meet it in person.

    PS the haggis piping went thoroughly well. It was entertaining to see which among the gathered people ate it with relish, and which turned their noses up and left it almost untouched!

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #15

    You need to climb up to see the pig, a bit like the view from the photo I posted....except that I pulled a leg muscle doing it and spent the rest of our break in Melrose hobbling round. 

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