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For all you Scot ex pats Morrisons sell Scotch pie, Haggis and Baxters Haggis soup all year round. (I'm reliably informed that haggis soup is the perfect hangover cure)

Living in Northumberland...Scotland is a usual holiday for us Northumbrians. Its not too far away.
When I was young we often went to Eyemouth. Edinburgh also.
When I was in my mid twenties a few of us went to Aviemore...high up in the mountains to ski for the weekend. Well I was crap at it but the scenary was beautiful and more so in the summer so I am told.
My oldest children went to Dumfries with their grandparents many years ago for the week.
OH has only just come back with the youngest 2 from our friends caravan up in Cumberland where they were next to the Sol whey Firth. He said when we go back up there we are defo going to Scotland for the day.
Scotland is rich in culture and has beautiful countryside.

thanks Gail
Merlin will be from England the south so will take a long time to get there so any nice views other than motorway will be welcome

All this mention of food is making me hungrey

thankyou marion any more talk of all the food from bonnie scotland and ill need a bucket lol and dont forget aberdeen butteries i love them and scotch pies mum always bring me some when she comes down

If you,re going from England, get off the M6at Carlisle then take the A7 through to Edinburgh.wonderful run.**M**

Hello Wendy.

I have just had a quick look at your thread. Too many replies to check.

I would suggest that, given the chance, you visit Glen Coe, and the Lochaber area. The area is seeped in history, and the views are breathtaking.

This lovely part of the world is reached via, Stirling, Callender,Crianlarich, Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy. The journey itself, is awe inspiring.

I have regularly visited this lovely part of the country, since a child. I am still visiting it now, as a grandparent!


Best Wishes

Gailx

Will i be allowed back over the boader with all the stuff i got to bring back pmsl

Ummm Toffee nice

everywhere looks nice that i looked at so far, but think the dolphins are winning at the moment see what o/h says when he comes home

Just looked at Farls...I think thats what my Dad got in Macclesfield.
I've not had a tattie scone for years.Mind you I dont fry these days.

Marion, we can get Potato Farls, endorsed by somebody Rankin, an irish chef, but they are not like the tattie scones I remember from my childhood in Rothesey.
Julia in Derbyshire

*wipes PP's chin' lol

Julia

I used to take down a whole block of Lorne to my Dad in England.
The 'tattie scones' he got down there were...potato cakes.not a patch on ours lol.
Even the black pudding isnt the same.

I dont eat black pudding or sausage anymore.

marion you are making me drool i love tablet .plain bread , lorne sausage and tattie scones when i go home i stock up and bring loads back with me lol and i always get a white pudding supper from the chippy mum always makes a clootie dumpling for me and stovies

Don't forget to get some Moffat Toffee!!!!!!!.I don't know anyone has mentioned Moffat and around that area.It's lovely.

Marion, you can send me supplies of all of those, any day, although I can get Lorne sausage in my local M******'s, but it is not quite like the real thing. We prefer it to a Beefburger LOL
Julia in Derbyshire

And dont fot get plain bread,lorne sausage and tattie scones to name a few.

Marion

Have a look here.


http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/tablet.htm

Hi Janet can i ask what Tablet is please

When you go to Scotland there are certain things you need to bring home with you.
Tablet
Edinburgh Rock
More Tablet

You MUST go to Glasgow and sit in George Square.

For the first 41 years of my life I never went north of Cumbria depite my Nan coming from Glasgow. Then we went to a friends wedding on Great Cumbrae.

The following year I persuaded OH to come on the "ancestor trail" and took him to Glasgow. I dragged him from tenement to tenement for two days until I thought I'd get done for cruelty and decided we should see the sights.

The following feb. I went back with my Mum and took her to a lot more tenements, chilling in the city centre and doing the tourist thing.

If someone said you can move anywhere in the UK I'd upsticks and go to Glasgow. Where else can you have a coffee in MacDonalds and look across the road to a Charles Rennie MacKintosh building.

If you want history head for Edinburgh, shopping Glasgow , nice walks Perth-shire (can recommend the "birks of aberfeldy") or if you want a bit of adventure white water rafting on the river tay. Pitlochry is a good stop over the Scotlands Hotel do good deals you can check them out on line

Wenders pmsl

It's a place called Keith, head to that and well away from the other Keith lmao