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what comes to your mind if you think of Scotland specially?

Rumpel

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Edinburgh


pronounced as Edinbrrrrre ....
 
have you ever tasted Haggis?
 
Glen Coe
Culloden Moor
Tobermory
Duart Castle on Mull
Edinburgh Castle from Prince's Street
Highland Games at Invershinn
 
Scotland is a beautiful part of the U.K. with fine people and great Scotch.
The Isle of Islay is a wonderful place to visit and everyone should put that destination on their bucket list if they love Scotland love Scotch.
 
Haggis and heroin abuse.
 
In order of personal importance ....

Aged Scotch
The art and architecture of Charles Rennie and Margaret Macdonald Macintosh and the Glasgow School
Firth of Fourth and other Scottish bridges
Kilts and bagpipes
Golf
Scottish wool and the tartans made of it
 
The number of Italian immigrants from the Lucchesia that had settled there.

While doing some casual reading, I was surprised to see the family name of my paternal grandmother in Scotland.
 
the address to a haggis
 
the Isle of Skye song
 
William Wallace
 
Buy a German composer, after he visited Scotland. So beautiful!

 
Another piece inspired by Scotland, by a visiting German:

 
Mr grandpa. When we would go visit as kids my grandma had to translate because none of us knew wtf he was saying
 
My grandfather
Bagpipes
Haggis (yes, I've had it)
Scotch eggs
Whiskey
Moors
Rain
Tartans
Highland Games
 
Mr grandpa. When we would go visit as kids my grandma had to translate because none of us knew wtf he was saying
Lol my grandfather's family emigrated when he was a youth. He worked hard to lose his brogue becaise he wanted to assimilate and be American, but even in his old age every time the man got two whiskeys in he'd start rolling the r's. ;)
 
Lol my grandfather's family emigrated when he was a youth. He worked hard to lose his brogue becaise he wanted to assimilate and be American, but even in his old age every time the man got two whiskeys in he'd start rolling the r's. ;)
i like the rolling of the rrrrrrrs
 
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