Have you ever visited Scotland? Do you live in Scotland? Do you have Scottish heritage? Have you actually eaten haggis? Come here and talk about all things Scottish! I know at least a few E-trainers that might come here, but I hope to see more!

My last name is Scottish, because my husband is part Scottish on his father's side. We visited Scotland in 2003, and really fell in love with the country. We want to visit again soon, but being from California, the airfare is quite expensive.

I love the culture, the scenery, the history, the castles, the people, the music--I'm by no means an expert, but I treasure my experiences there, and I look forward to hearing about yours!

Karen :hello:

I am scottish. So so so scottish.
I want to go there at some point, but I can't get over there right now :( Which makes me sad.

I have a little bit of Scottish in my ancestery. I would love to visit Scotland one day. It looks so pretty. :D

Ok I'm not Scottish so sorry for posting in this thread lol. But, I love Scottish everything! I love Scotland, it's beautiful. I wish I could visit there one day. I love Scottish accents. My mom's boyfriend's friend lives there, and he visits sometimes. His accent is so thick and I love it haha! I LOVE KILTS. Does anyone have a favorite Scottish actor? Mine is Billy Boyd, he played Pippin in Lord of the Rings. I love him SO MUCH. I met him back in January at a LOTR fan convention, he is so sweet. :D




And here are some beautiful pictures of Scotland!

OH MY GOSH, SWEETSARAHH!!!!! YOU MET BILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so envious! Billy is definitely my favorite Scottish actor and one of my favorite actors in general. I LOVE HIM!!! :thud:

Your pics with him are awesome! (And you're a cutie, too!)

He and Elliott are the only two people I've ever gone crazy for like this.

Dare I ask, are you a loon?


Karen

P.S. Don't worry, no one actually has to be Scottish to post here!

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:hello: Karen --- I'm still waiting to hear some of those adventures you and Bronwen were talking about. I've haven't been to Scotland yet, so I'm counting on you to give me some vicarious pleasure!
And SweetSarahh -- great pictures!

I am still in the process of penning my Highland adventure. This weekend the annual Highland games take place here in Puddle Town.

I have the tiniest bit of Scottish ancestry -- my mother's maiden name was Ramsey (I know, not Ramsay -- but her side was supposedly Scottish/Irish descent). My mom did name me Heather -- does that count for anything? :lol:
And I worked in 'Scotland' at Busch Gardens once? :P

Would LOVE to visit Scotland one day. It seems like such a beautiful country. Perhaps when my kids get older -- right now a 4 year old and a 19 month old would be tough to handle on an international flight. I think the passengers might kill us before we ever got there. :)

:hello: scarlettm512 -- aw - If I were on your plane, I'd help you with them. My "babies" are 24 and 14 so I would love the chance to cuddle a wee one again.
But you can change the diapers!!
I'm a Stuart by marriage, and a scot at heart!! I have relatives with blazing red hair and freckles galore so there could be a little scot in my french canadian ancestry. :glomp:

The French have a red-headed strain, too. And, remember all those expatriots who sheltered in France. I have a very strong French strain in my own family stemming from my material great-greatfather on my grandmother's side. As with other names in the New World, "Marquis" is perhaps not the original family name, rather a name taken upon arriving here. I have an odd quirk in my family in that my French materal great father and my Irish maternal great grandmother were both protestants.

The history of settlement in the New World continues to be of interest to me...just following the American Revolution from the stand point of the Scots and the so-called Scots-Irish makes for an interesting point of reference...and definitely impacts the history of Canada after that Revolution.

I know, I know, too much information.

:hello: Bronwen -- there was a lot of intermarriage between cultures in Canada. I probably have a touch of Metis in my blood, too. My dad's family has been in Canada since its early settlement. A great-great uncle was the priest instrumental in Louis Riel's rebellion in the 1800's.
There is a story that our start in Canada was from an English boy from Stratford-on-Avon, living in New England, who was captured during an Iroquois raid and taken to Quebec. Somehow the name Richard was changed to my maiden name Ritchot. How true this is, I do not know.
My mother's family were relative new-comers to Canada, arriving here in the 1800's from Alsace Lorraine. My great-grandfather was the bastard son of a nobleman and a maid, who were sent to Canada to get them out of the picture. Again, whether this is fact or fiction, who really knows.
And, no there's never too much information. It's all good.
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I am Scott-Irish with (used to be) red hair and freckles.

But, there is a lady who posts in Group Huddle, Secret Society of Oldies, who lives in Scotland. She is just precious and loves to trip us up in the chatroom with her unusual vocabulary. She is an elementary school teacher. Very funny. She is on "holiday" now, but when she returns, I'll send her over here.

:D

Oh please do! She would be most welcome.

OK, I'm going to relate a Scottish adventure my husband and I had. It comes to mind because we were just talking about it recently. Brad and I stayed in Inverness for three nights. For those of you who don't know, Inverness is in the Scottish Highlands. I could go on and on about the Highlands; it's so beautiful and wild, but that's for another time. We decided to take a drive one day. We didn't really know where we were going, and we ended up driving all the way across Scotland (not too difficult to do). I was driving, because I can't read anything in the car, because I'll get sick within seconds, so I drove so Brad could read the map and navigate. I found it quite a challenge to drive on the left side of the road, but fortunately, there was hardly anyone else on the road. Not that STAYING on the left side of the road is so difficult (well, sometimes), but all your vehicle movements and judgements are the complete opposite of your instincts, especially if you're like me who has been driving since I was fifteen. (And that was many moons ago!)

Anyway, we are driving along, and a castle appears on our left. Brad starts to get really excited, and I asked him why, and he said, "That's the castle they used in "Highlander!" Have any of you seen that rather cheesy 80's movie, "Highlander," with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert? Brad is a big fan of the movie; I had only seen little bits of it, but I liked that a lot of it was filmed in Scotland. I hadn't made the connection about the castle, though, but Brad sure did! So we stopped. It was after 5pm, so visiting hours were closed, but we explored all around the castle. It's called Eilean Donan Castle, and it's beautiful. You cross a big stone bridge to get to it, and it is situated right by the water, and the mountains around it are so green and beautiful.

It was just one of those unexpected surprises, and a great memory.

Can anyone help me with putting pictures in a post? I have some pictures of the castle, but I can't figure out how to put a picture in a post.

Karen :)

My last name is Ewart! Indeed I am a little crazy lass.

I have been to Inverness and Edinborough.

Now if Ediborough has a pub called the Ensign Ewart, near an old tomb of a militiary officier that says Here Lies the Ensign Ewart

I gave my son the first name of Patrick. though I call him Liev, his middle name.

In case my son becomes bald in his early years, he be like Patrick Stewart, but without the "St".

Ewart is the clan of Stewart that lost their sainthood. (little joke there)

ohhh lassie I love them pictures.

Now if you love everything scottish, mind you to have a nice piece of jewelry with a thistle and heather. for that's a symbol, you know! (there some upward influctions at the end of the words here, if you know what I mean)

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Karen, Thank you for posting a snippet of your adventure. My own is more a novella than a snippet so am still figuring out how to cramp it into this small space...installments?

pilatesmom -- As a matter of fact I do have my thistle and thyme jewelry and the old heather knit sweaters to boot.