Fun facts from Scotland
Male swans get into fights over territory (presumably with female swans that go with the territory), and try to kill each other by holding the others head under water to drown it.
Scotsmen can be frugal: a small town was offered a nearly new bridge on the river Esk by a company who had built it for moving building materials to a new construction site. The town turned down the offer because bridge maintenance would cost too much. The bridge sits unused except two days a year when it is opened for access to horse racing.
Scotland and northern England has more than a few hills - mostly short - with gradients of 15 to 20 percent. These get your attention as much as the old castles - many dating back well over a thousand years - that are scattered about.
The bridges of Newcastle (OK, we're in England now) are nesting sites for Kittiwakes this time of year. Late summer they fly across the Atlantic to see the tourist sites in Newfoundland and Greenland, then return in March. The more traditionalist Kittiwakes still live on sea cliffs.
Scotland has a visible group of "we just want freedom to state our views" racists who fly American Confederate battle flags in their trucks. I avoided giving them the finger, no matter what.
The "new" castle in Newcastle was built in 1080. Hard to know what to say about that.
Rusted links apparently trying to hold together a "chain link" suspension bridge crossing from Scotland to England:
Winnie the Pooh lived near here. A classic English pastoral scene:
Scotsmen can be frugal: a small town was offered a nearly new bridge on the river Esk by a company who had built it for moving building materials to a new construction site. The town turned down the offer because bridge maintenance would cost too much. The bridge sits unused except two days a year when it is opened for access to horse racing.
Scotland and northern England has more than a few hills - mostly short - with gradients of 15 to 20 percent. These get your attention as much as the old castles - many dating back well over a thousand years - that are scattered about.
The bridges of Newcastle (OK, we're in England now) are nesting sites for Kittiwakes this time of year. Late summer they fly across the Atlantic to see the tourist sites in Newfoundland and Greenland, then return in March. The more traditionalist Kittiwakes still live on sea cliffs.
Scotland has a visible group of "we just want freedom to state our views" racists who fly American Confederate battle flags in their trucks. I avoided giving them the finger, no matter what.
The "new" castle in Newcastle was built in 1080. Hard to know what to say about that.
Rusted links apparently trying to hold together a "chain link" suspension bridge crossing from Scotland to England:
Winnie the Pooh lived near here. A classic English pastoral scene:
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