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Playfair Steps | Edinburgh, Scotland
They apparently belong to Lionel Richie.
photos by thisoysterismyhometown
(via lndnwlkr)
Dunlop Church & graveyard by christopher308 on Flickr.
A train on the south end of the Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge as seen from South Queensferry
Bridge of Dun Rail Station, Angus, Scotland
British Linen Bank, Falkland, Fife - now part of HBOS.
Scots Celebrate The Anniversary Of The Birth Of Robert Burns
Piper Callum Watson, from Dumfries plays in front of the Robert Burns statue, as part of events taking place to celebrate the birth of poet Robert Burn on January 25, 2012 in Dumfries, Scotland.
Burns suppers will be held today to commemorate the life of the poet Robert Burns, who was born on this day in 1759.
Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Ever since I saw the video for Mull Of Kintyre (age 4), I’ve wanted to play the bagpipes.
Since moving to America I’ve found that apparently very few Americans know all this. So I spent six hours designing a fancy photoset to explain it all. Naturally.
Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, hence “Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. NI residents can elect to be citizens of the Republic of Ireland if they wish (most famous example of someone who did this: Seamus Heaney). The UK’s Olympics team is known as “Team GB” for this reason too, NI residents can elect to represent Ireland if they wish. Same goes for ParalympicsGB.
Northern Ireland is sometimes represented by the Flax flag, thus:
This is deemed to neither favour nor exclude any ‘side’. We use it at work when we need to illustrate the UK’s constituent countries with a flag.
Aside from this, awesome and accurate post is awesome and accurate. Cymraeg (Welsh) has lots and lots of vowels and double letters and is beautiful and lyrical, most signs & notices in Wales are in both languages (like how everything’s in English and French in Canada). Cornish is spoken mostly by people who’ve gained a GCSE and by roadsigns. And no Scottish person has ever said “Hoots mon” ever.
If you want to see what the UK’s other languages are like, try Wikipedia in Welsh, Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, & Irish.
(via belovedbritain)
