Hello from sunny Scotland - deliriousthunder

[mujambee]

Hello from sunny Scotland

Hello from damp, rainy Spain.

[LBD]

Hello from damp, rainy Spain.

3 can play that game....hello from freaking cold Kyrgyzstan....But I will be in Malaga next week for 2 weeks....

Oh and gidday Jock (s) welcome to the forum.....You would fit in, in NZ, in 1995 there was a new monument erected to the Glencoe mascare...

[mujambee]

But I will be in Malaga next week for 2 weeks....

Bringing your bike?

[LBD]

Bringing your bike?

I wish....no.... Wife, Visa card, shopping list, fishing rod, Avis discount vouchers....They do have bike rentals and that has crossed my mind a couple of times....either that or a SCUBA trip....and 4 days school.

[mujambee]

They do have bike rentals and that has crossed my mind a couple of times

Here you have a trip report for this route (in spanish with pics). Even by car you should climb up there.

But I believe we are steering away deliriousthunder's thread. Hi again, Scotts. How're you faring your sunny day?

[MSTRS:Me]

Nah, bricht is another way of saying bright..

E.g. "It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht"

--> Translation: "It's a good bright moonlit night tonight"

"Good" doesn't really sum up "braw", but I don't really know how to translate that accurately.

Never spent much time in Glasgow anyway, an East coast man myself. Never liked the city for some reason, can't quite put my finger on it.

Och Hen, d'ye nae ken whit ah meen? Alba is aye drecht. Isnae it? Whit thus 'bricht' meens, ah hae nae idea.
An' aye, ah ken whit ye meen bae braw. 'tis noo an easy word tae translate - bonny, guid, lovelae, rare , all o' the above....

And of course you would be unlikely to know 'Jack and Betty' from Perth, although stranger things have happened. I'm just messing with you. A wee story to follow...

[MSTRS:Me]

A few years ago, my wife worked at a college in Hastings (Hawkes Bay, NZ - not Harold's battle site) which is about 20kms from where we live in Napier. There she met a science teacher who, it turned out, lived about 5 houses away from us in the same street. Now, this fellow came from Paisley and also liked whisky and Runrig (funny that!) so we became quite good friends.
Fast forward a couple of years, and our youngest boy got a new teacher for sports. She told the class that it was not funny to pretend they didn't understand her accent or make fun of it (she was Scottish).
Well - our young fellow, being a switched on kid, said he recognised her accent and was she from Glasgow?
No, she said, but quite close, from a place called Paisley.
Our young fellow then said, No kidding? I know a guy from there. He's a science teacher. Mr Breen.
She said, When I was at school my science teacher's name was Mr Breen. Not Ed, is it?
Yep. Same guy.

[KiwiPhoenix]

Like the translation!

I'm from a town called Carluke about 30 miles east of Glasgow. How are you enjoying Scotland?

You are right, it's not that often you can use Scotland and sunny in the same sentence!

Nah, bricht is another way of saying bright..

E.g. "It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht"

--> Translation: "It's a good bright moonlit night tonight"

"Good" doesn't really sum up "braw", but I don't really know how to translate that accurately.

Never spent much time in Glasgow anyway, an East coast man myself. Never liked the city for some reason, can't quite put my finger on it.

[325rocket]

welcome to the site. i spent a bit of time living in scotland a few years ago the closest to you would have been dunkeld (spelling could be wrong)
you have some fantastic roads over there.