1. Sunbathe on the most secluded beach in Europe.
"Azure Sea", "white sand" and
other Caribbean-Maldivian stamps are difficult to apply to Scotland. Unless, of
course, we are not talking about the beaches of Harris Island. To get to them
is not easy - by plane from Glasgow or Inverness or by ferry to Stornoway, and
then another hour and a half by car along serpentines and landscapes resembling
the moon. But then your only neighbors will be wild ponies and dolphins.
2. Spend the night in
a lunatic asylum The Scots are famous for their eccentricity and lightweight
"gravest" humor - no wonder all the funeral anecdotes. Therefore,
when a local hotelier set up a hotel in Edinburgh in a yellow house, no one
blinked.
3. Try heather honey.
The tragic story of the little proud specimens who
took the recipe for alcoholic beverages with them to the grave (do we still
understand that we are not talking about honey?), Thanks to Stevenson and
Marshak we all know. But the story of Leann Fraoch, the heather ale, is more
complicated. Traces of it were found during the excavation of settlements four
thousand years ago, when there was no talk of picts. Here they were brewing
ipili until the 18th century, when the country lost its independence, and with
it the right to make beer from anything other than malt, hops, and water. But in the ancient
land, nothing disappears without a trace, and in 1986 Bruce Williams, a brewer
from Argyll, obtained a precious recipe for a hunger for distant islands
(perhaps with the help of torture) and cooked the first few barrels of
naturally carbonated heather ale. The drink he turned divine - amber, slightly
carbonated, with a mild bitterness, strong oily body and a wine-like finale.
4. Taste whiskey.
Fighting for the right to be inventors of whiskey, the
Scots and the Irish even write it differently: whiskey for a drink produced in
Ireland, and whiskey for the Scottish version. Whiskey is tougher in taste than
its southern neighbor, aged in barrels for at least three years (Irish at least
five) and drunk first undiluted.
5. Play golf.
Today, golf is considered to be a high society game,
and it began, like everything else in Scotland, very simply. Those who got
tired of boredom-keeper made up stones with their staff in specially dug holes
for speed and number of strokes. When they were taken to the war, they
continued to have fun during long piers or ambushes, infecting others with their
excitement. In 1457, the Scottish king Jacob II even had to issue a decree
prohibiting archers from playing golf, because he distracted them from
training. Scots are proud of their national sport no less than whiskey, so
there are a lot of golf courses with schools in the country.
6. Run with wolves.
If the Scots have something in common with the
British, it is a passion for the preservation and enhancement of all life in
the land allotted to them by God. Almost half of the territory north of
Edinburgh is given to national parks and reserves. All of them are managed by
the Scottish Wildlife Fund, whose patron is the Prince of Wales. In the summer,
most of them take excursions for adults and children.
7. See the ghost ...
The rare castle of Scotland cannot boast of its ghosts. Endless stories of
clothes, looking for murdered mothers, separated lovers, who crave for reunion
even after death, wives, unwary husbands from the battlefield, and other
horrors are told here with gusto and lurking pride - well, what else earth
keeps children so tightly.
8. Catch the giant salmon.
On the river fishing head south to the so-called
Scottish Borders. There, in the Tweed River (the famous cloth was named so
precisely in her honor), the largest salmon species are found throughout the
United Kingdom. Fishing on the territory of Scotland is possible only on Monday
on Saturday - Sunday is a day off for God-fearing beasts. It can also be
enjoyed by visiting the Abbotsford manor, Sir Walter Scott's fantasy mansion.
9. Enlist longevity.
Clyde Ark across the Clyde River in Glasgow is
actually not the happiest bridge on earth. Just a couple of months after its
opening in 2006, one of the cables supporting the arched construction broke off
and fell on the roadway. But at the same time, none of the good hundreds of
cars caught on the bridge at that time suffered. Hence the urban omen was born
- if you stand long enough in the center of Clyde Arch and look at the water,
then good luck and longevity are ensured. Make it difficult, but what
difficulties you will not go for a happy old age?
10. Kindle with vikings.
If you are going to Scotland in the winter, plan your
trip so that on the last Tuesday of January you will visit the town of Lerwick
on the Shetland Islands: the largest costume costume fire show in Europe takes
place there. At first, numerous groups of people dressed as Vikings with
fakelaces in their hands drag the Drakars through the city - the ancient ships
of the Scandinavian conquerors, then they solemnly burn their podpisni, dancing
and screaming cries of all those present. This fiery orgy of Up Helly Aa is
called and for its sake tourists come to Lerwick from all over the world.
11. Go in search of haggis.
It is difficult to find a less attractive dish for a
tourist than haggis. And the more famous too - written in 1787 by Robert Burns,
“Ode to Haggis,” every self-respecting Scot knows by heart. Since the dish is
primordial, there is no classic recipe - somewhere they add lard, somewhere
there is not, somewhere there is more seasoning, somewhere less. But the
essence does not change: haggis is a lamb's stomach, stuffed with mutton
giblets with the addition of onions and seasonings. It is better to eat it on a
cold winter evening with a side dish of izburyukva and potatoes, to wash down
with a pint of heavy ale and to get into the difficult life of the Scottish
peasants.
12. Walk through the cemetery.
To climb a high hill, where Glasgow Necropolis is
located, you need at least for the sake of a great view of the hill. But to
wander among the Victorian tomb is also worth it. Roman settlers buried the
site, but in 1831 the authorities decided to renovate the necropolis and called
the eminent architect David Hamilton (he built the Gallery of Modern Art, the
first stone bridge over the Clyde and many other local attractions) and the
royal botanical gardens Stuart Murray.
13. Visit the biggest
stage of the world This is what Edinburgh becomes during the annual Arts
Festival. It takes place in August and is divided into two parts - the first
one shows the jury's chosen program, and the second, the unofficial and the
most interesting, gathers theaters, circus and opera companies, vagrant
musicians of all kinds and just modern artists not alien to plastic arts. Every
corner of the city turns into a stage, from which talents of all stripes sing, shout
and keep silence.
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