today i almost died/a thread about the scottish highlands

[heel31ok]

Your last name wouldn't happen to be Dinwoodie or Dinwiddie would it?

he said it was Scottish...duh

[PanthersBigD]

glascow was the hardest place to get around. it was a really tough city and was really too big for me to be walking around by myself, like i did one of the first couple days there and got lost. it was a few hours before i remembered the name of area i was staying in (castlemilk, iirc) so i could ask for directions. i didn't remember the names of any of the streets around where i was staying at. i eventually found my way back, tho. i'm not sure what time it was, but it was still light out which means it could have been after 10 or 11 at night. oh...and the people in Glasgow were the hardest to understand caus  they talked so fast and their accents were so think. everywhere  else i went was really laid back, but glascow was just constant. i'm not a big city guy so i wasn't that big a fan of glascow. 

 

I loved the bigger city aspect of Glasgow myself. We were wandering around in a bad part of town at about 3AM one morning and stopped at a chip shop for some food. The guy running the place was straight out of Trainspotting. He said, "You two must be Americans." which we confirmed and I asked why he said that, to which he replied, "Only Americans would be fooked in the heed enough to walk around outside the council houses(projects) in the middle of the night." That's one of my best memories of my trip.

[PhillyB]

last picture: castle ruins in the middle of a lake in the cairngorms mountains. only in scotland.

 

[Chimera]

I didn't know you were one to partake in risque activity. Be sure to get down to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and do some paragliding.

http://zugspitze.de/en/summer/aktiv/garmisch-classic/paragleiten

eta: then return in the winter for the best snowboarding on earth

[Peppers90 NC]

nice, was in Ireland this time last year.  Scotland high on my list, would love to take a golf trip there at some point.