I've just booked my holiday for 3rd week of june, Lancashire and Scotland. Plenty of time to move south, if you hurry! :D
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I've just booked my holiday for 3rd week of june, Lancashire and Scotland. Plenty of time to move south, if you hurry! :D
I have informed the Royal Airforce,
Time to go and grease the AAA?
:D:cool::eek:
The RAF is not going to let my plane land? But it's BA!
And what do you think "BA" stands for...............:p:D
On a more serious note, the RAF fly out of the Republic of Ireland. They have high speed interceptors which the Irish Airforce do not. It is part of a joint anti-terrorism agreement.
The deal is that the RAF will intercept "rogue" aircraft over the North Atlantic, before they reach the British Isles.
;)
I also have booked my vacation for the 3rd week in June. I'm greedy so I'm taking two weeks. Both the 2nd and 3rd weeks. I won't be traveling out of the country though... A couple of weeks of camping/ hiking/ mountain biking/ whitewater rafting&kayaking/ caving and rock climbing. Should be fun. :)
So BA = "Ban Americans"? Sounds fun, phish. Well, not for me, I'm a city boy, born and raised. I saw nature on tv.
I suppose the weather might have cleared up by June, your plane might just land. Where are you visiting in Scotland? You can't really visit the whole place, its rather big.
A general tip: on the day that you plan to try a Deep Fried Mars Bar (a Scottish delicacy), don't expect to be eating anything else that day.
Edinburra (if that's how they insist on pronouncing it, that's how I'm gonna spell it! :)). Just for 4 days, 3 nights. The rest of the time I'll be at my friend's in Leigh. Probably do Blackpool again, since it wasn't summer when I saw it last.
Help! :D Fortunately it might clash with the week I'm in Shetland - we're planning on climbing to the highest point on the Islands on the 21st June and watching the sunset turn to sunrise in under half an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
Fear not, I'll be a good deal west of geordie-land, and then well north of it after that. Although it never hurts to have a good guard dog posted.
Be sure to have some "spotted dick" , a "knickerbocker glory" or maybe even a "99" or two.
My mother was a native of Glascow, I have a lot of fond memories of visiting my relatives there.
Moira, don't worry...........if he tries to slink in via the North Sea, we will send the USAF F-16s from Lincolnshire..... they probably have a few F-22s there as well?
;):D
:shootem:
Hey, no fair using my country's own arms against me!
Edinburgh. It's just a rough guttural remnant form of gaelic I suspect? The g pronounced grrrraa. Always wondered, never asked. First time I went there I was afraid to try the Edinburrra. Versus EdinBERG. Bergh would be like german berg and berger wouldn't it? Not a linguist. Nor a decent speller.Quote:
Edinburra (if that's how they insist on pronouncing it, that's how I'm gonna spell it! ).
BTW it's fun to get numbingly drunk and jump into the firth. ;)
I know, but it's fun to jibe about it. Like when they come here and pronounce a city in penn. as "Pittsburra".
Pittsburra.... that would be classic. :)
If you have never been to Edinburgh and have the time the ghost walk tour is fun. Dark alleys pubs ghost stories... typical touristy kind of thing. Fun though. Edinburra is a dark city with a nasty history of witch burnings, ghastly medical experiments, and all forms of ill deeds Strangely beautiful today. The quintessential medieval city not overly destroyed by the Luftwaffe like others.
I think the Nazis were more bent on destroying England, than Scotland. I'll only be there 4 days/3 nights, but I will look into it. I'll be staying right in the heart of the city, in a rented flat. My 1st trip to Scotland. Been to England so much that I actually know my way around the place a bit.
Next yr, Ireland. That requires a bit more dosh so I have to save up for it.
I think they attacked port sections of Edinburgh but they spared the old city. I was just in Plymouth and not much was left after the Nazi's tried to take out the fleet there. I got to within about 30 feet of 4 nuclear submarines from the HMS fleet. Man that was cool. Next time I am in England which will probably be next year... I wan't to go to the kinky boots factory. ;)
JP, if I may offer a bit of unsolicited advice: my late Father used to say,
"...always visit your friends around dinnertime."
May I suggest a different approach to planning for your scheduled visit
to the inhabited land of northern England and Scotland? :)
Those are really the most completely ordinary foodstuffs ever. You might want to try haggis, but be aware that it really isn't all that interesting when it comes down to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by fourdc
I've already seen much of Northern England a couple of times (and southern). This is the foray into Scotland. We already booked Edinburgh so not much can be done there
Try haggis my friend, preferably after several large straight malts............ they help you forget that it was cooked in the stomach bag of a sheep:D
You also need "neeps" (turnips) and "taties" (potatoes) both of which should be served mashed ;)
I s'pose I'll have to, but it'll be the 1st time I've eaten something cooked inside an organ. Hang on, I forgot about sausage. Intestines are an organ. Never mind :)
There's always Black pudding if the Haggis is a no go..:DQuote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
D'OH! No, there are many, many things in this world that should NEVER be pudding, and I would hasten to say that blood is one of em.
You could go for white pudding, I'm not sure what it is, but there's no blood in it.
I don't wanna think about what it MIGHT be :D
I think it's basically fat ....
Then it's definitely out. In my case I think that'd constitute cannibalism.
No fat eh? In Scotland? I don't think that deep-fried-mars-bars are fatty as such but if you're on a diet then they are perhaps the worst thing ever.
Well I assume that you've already had a good Anglo-Indian curry, in which case the only remaining consumable that you simply must indulge in is the local booze, the Scots drink stout, bitter and whiskey, merely ask the landlord what to drink, and he'll be glad to help you out (also, check out the smoke free atmosphere that is soon to be adopted throughout the UK)
Yes, had that on my 1st trip to the south, ages ago. We did a pub crawl in Bath, ended up with indian food. You have 1 every 10ft there, like we do pizzerias here.