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My #SomewhereSunday destination today is Scotland.
I have always wanted to go to Scotland and a
favorite book (and now TV) series is based there so it intrigues me even more.
It's always helpful to know the most common phrases and words when traveling to a new place. The Scots language is similar to English but not. Check this out, you'll see what I mean. *grin*
Ardnamurchan Peninsula
Edinburgh
A tour, led by Rick Steves, through Scotland's Islands and Highlands
Most of the time when the word food in mentioned in the same sentence as Scotland the first thing people think of is Haggis. It has quite a reputation around the world with very mixed reviews I'd say. Well, there's more to Scotland than Haggis as this video shows - it takes us on a food tour of Scottish cuisine.
Cave of Melody
Trotternish Ridge, Isle of Skye
Enjoy some traditional music
Edinburgh is referred to as the cultural heart of Scotland.
Take a tour of it with Rick Steves.
The currency in Scotland is the Pound
The Middle Highlands
Culloden Moor
Eilean Donan Castle
Fairy Glenn
Fairy Pools
Finnich Glen, Loch Lomond
You can't visit Scotland without attending the Highland Games!
Gruinard Bay
Inverness
Heather covered moors
Loch Ness
The Highlands
There's so much to see and do in Scotland, here's 25.
You can make your own scottish food to complete your *travel* experience today. Try one of these recipes.
Leanach Cottage, Culloden Moor.
It is the only surviving building from the battle in 1745
There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.
"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.
There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...
You can make your own scottish food to complete your *travel* experience today. Try one of these recipes. 
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