Hello friends, just today im back from one of the most beautiful countries. This was my 4th trip of the year and perhaps the best. I was pretty amazed with the lifestyle, funny accent, men in frock, bagpiper,  culture, whiskey, highlands, low lands and everything of this wonderful country.

So, as usual, im eager to share my experience with SAJAH friends through pictures. Please mind, im not a good photographer and I used ordinary 4.00 megapixel  camera without powerful zoom so, please donot expect great snaps.

The country was SCOTLAND, part of Great Britain/ the United Kingdom (GB or UK consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). Its half of size of Nepal and  5.1 million population.

Edinburgh, the city of castle is capital city and Glasgow is the biggest city of country. Im writin this so that u could enjoy more with the pictures :-)

So here we go Scotland :-)

--I wd be only happy if u drop few words after viewing this thread--

Amazing,

I am so glad you are going to above cities, and the good thing is you taking buses to move around, good move its cheaper and you see great deal of the cities. Stay close to student budget hehe!

Have fun and keep the pictures rolling.

cheers mate!

NN

Amazing,

A  wee bit of tip about the cities.

Aberdeen :  the granite building such as Marishal college give the city its dinstinctive look thats where it got its name from Grey City. Gotta take a look and also the Aberdeen university another great landmark. There you can also enjoy a great night out and the weird thing is the clubs and pubs used to be churches and can you imagine drinking in a holy place.... loll I did... i m going to hell!!!! oh dear god. Another city in the outskirt of Aberdeen you must look is the stonehaven, a port town where they have a war memorial not sure if it is WW1 or 2. quite a walk but very good time. You will also take note of Dunnattar Castle which is dramatic and evocative ruin. As you wander around the extensive buildings you are almost surrounded by sea with sea-gulls and other seabirds wheeling and screaming around the cliff and they are fat birds very scary and loud. This castle has a very good historical event tied with William Wallace, A hero from Scotland. I am sure you will love it. Try tradditonal pub called the Prince of Wales a great place to chill out if you like the tradditional music and good company

Glasgow : To me glasgow is more industrial place, Shopping paradise and clubbing area. I do the latter two things there and also not to be missed the museum and art gallery and University of Glasgow.

Inverness: A home to lochness, grab the bus and enjoy the view and the myth. Inverness has some different angle of Scotland more quiter and unique in its own way. Great museum and art gallery, also check out the inverness castle which is now turned into Sheriff's court not sure if you can enter the building tho. I dint the other time I was there, but good place to pose a picture hehe! Eastgate shopping center, a great place to shop till you drop which i love to do but that is just a fancy area. Do take a look at the indoor Victorian Market which has shops selling Scottish souvenirs and also great things for window shopping.

I think thats all for now hope i gave enuff info! But i am sure you have done extensive research nevertheless do enjoy to the fullest!

cheers mate!

NN

 

Harke bro, please do wait, its coming :-)
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Nepali Nari, so glad that u took your valuable time to describe wonderful places of Scotland. Ive visited almost all the places of u mentioned above. More pictures comin, please wait hai.

28. Halooooooooo from Aabadeen (Aberdeen),
Third biggest city of Scotland. Finally Amazing is here

29. 'The famous Union Street of Aberdeen'

Aberdeen has many nick names, The Northern city is 'Oil Capital of Europe' and a Granite city, all the houses are in same color. There are 2 Nepali restaurants and around 150-200 Nepalis have made this place a second home (students dominating)

30. My visit to Aberdeen wd be incomplete without visitn this institution. (Thank friend for showin me around)

One of the oldest and prestigious universities in UK 'University of Aberdeen' where more than 50 students pursue higher studies esp in Health/Medical sceinces.

31. Momo, Scottish way.

(On the road again---Destination Stonehaven)

32. 'Udi Jaau bhane ma panchhi hoina'--------------------------

Birds on their summer vacation, flyin over North Sea in Stonehaven (one of the most famous tourist spots in Scotland)

33. Please write caption for this snap

(From Stonehaven)

34. Small, wonderful, village type town. - STONEHAVEN

Many thanks for all the viewers.

(Last pic for the day)

Nepali Nari, I just updated this thread for u.

Shetland please....

Amazing....

Thanks for the wonderful photos... I am feeling nostalgic hehehehe.... ati Sundar cha hoina stone haven ta.... I enjoyed every inch of it. Dont worry I have not forgotten my promise to provide you with shetland island pictures.... I dont have artistic photographic skill like you so please pardon me on that hai....

La to start off with the map of Shetland Island for those who dont know its situated North of Scotland.

NN landed in Sumburgh airport..... in Shetland island...  yesss!!!!

Land hunney bitikai bhok Laaging...... And guess what I found a Nepalese Restaurant... opened by one Nepali dai... I was like what the heckkkk yaha ni Nepali restaurant.... what a pleasant surprise as I was craving for nepali khana for 4 months..... there are about 8 Nepalese in Shetland Island and including my good friend who showed me around... I owe u a BIG Time... Dude... Next time Drinks on me.... :) ... Very good food ani simple yet touch of nepali pan..... Simplicity at its best....

 

Anyways more pix of Nepali restaurant in that island.... Here there are lots of Lord Shiva ani more pictures been displayed... awesome... Khana saat saat Bagwan ko ni Darshan bayoooo...

laaa... phet bareo aba.... Sight seeing Chaluuuu... As I was driving around yeo sundar spot ma sight view gardey basey... i think spent half an hour just staring at this beautiful landscape ... simply awesome....

Just beside that nice view... some sheep were making some noise... faint Baaa Baaa!!!! lollllll

I wish I could spend the night here in this hotellll tara what to do bank balance was low.... but anyways this is a great hotel just beside the sea and whats even great about it is it is near one of  the oldest Scotish iron civilisation.... known as Jarlshof dated back as early as 4500 yrs ago..... very interesting archeological site... I was really impressed.

 

la last picture after looking around Jarlshof village.... I was facinated by the beautiful cow and its calves.... hehehe they had ear tags like kaan ko kundaal... wonder what they meant.... they look so cwheeet!!!! 

I so wanted to touch them.... they looked so cute but I was cautious as mother was near them.. dint want her charging at me...But Guess whattttttt I think looked more scary to them... caz they all fled as I reached out to touch them.... Oh Dear GOD!!!! hehehe

The pictures and the accompanying descriptions on this thread are splendid. Please keep them coming.

Here is a celebrated poem by W H Auden that I had to study as a student. It highlights the salient characters of Scotland highlands which could be appropriate for the forum.

NIGHT MAIL
by W H Auden

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.
Thro' sparse counties she rampages,
Her driver's eye upon the gauges.
Panting up past lonely farms
Fed by the fireman's restless arms.
Striding forward along the rails
Thro' southern uplands with northern mails.

Winding up the valley to the watershed,
Thro' the heather and the weather and the dawn overhead.
Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,
Snorting noisily as she passes
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses.

Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Stare from the bushes at her blank-faced coaches.
Sheepdogs cannot turn her course;
They slumber on with paws across.
In the farm she passes no one wakes,
But a jug in the bedroom gently shakes.

Dawn freshens, the climb is done.
Down towards Glasgow she descends
Towards the steam tugs yelping down the glade of cranes,
Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces
Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.
All Scotland waits for her:
In the dark glens, beside the pale-green sea lochs
Men long for news.

Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And applications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Notes from overseas to Hebrides
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

Thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of terrifying monsters,
Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston's or Crawford's:
Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,
Asleep in granite Aberdeen,
They continue their dreams,
And shall wake soon and long for letters,
And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart,
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

This is taken from the back of Scalloway Castle.. this is a small town near the harbour notice the houses are painted with bright colour and at the back you can notice a quarry... could not take a closer view but definitely quarry..... Anyways last pic of the day.... hope you guys enjoy ...  

 

Later...

NN