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I stayed in Onich years ago on a West Coast trip. Nice place, very quiet. It made the IOW look like Vegas
I'll bet we could liven it up a bit.
I stayed in Onich years ago on a West Coast trip. Nice place, very quiet. It made the IOW look like Vegas
.......It made the IOW look like Vegas
Perhaps it is an Edinburgh thing, but each time I've been to Scotland (admittedly not very regularly as I've never felt all that keen on going back there after each visit) it's been a bar, and I've not liked the beer.
Wherever we end up, better make sure that they know we are film photographers rather than a "film crew" or people coming to "shoot a film".
Sorry Chris, I should have been clearer in explaining that they get real film crews in the Onich area as they are close to Glencoe and Rob Roy was filmed just over the Corran Ferry on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Similarly, Newtonmore would have been the base for the crew on Monarch of the Glen some years back, so the very mention of the word "film" may have them rubbing their hands and prices rising!I think the sheer number of cameras tends to make us stand out!
Out of interest, what part of Scotland was this. I've never heard of anyone going anywhere other than the "pub".
As an aside, lots of excellent beers in Scottish pubs, but still some that only sell the cold fizzy horrible stuff (to my taste), which used to be the norm in Scotland, but fortunately started to change when I started to legally drink 44 years ago, and now most pubs I go to have good real ales, and often a choice of artisan/micro brewery beers.
Firstly it was a town in Perthshire, secondly a town in Dumfries and Galloway. The locals might well have referred to them as pubs, but compared to what I picture mentally as a pub (a building, usually on it's own, with three or four rooms and perhaps more than one bar (tap room, snug, lounge, etc., or maybe an open plan design, but with different alcoves and levels, etc.), these were what I'd call bars. Being part of the rest of the buildings in the main street, one room deep, with a bar running the length of the room, under-window bench seating with a few tables and chairs in front of that.
Looks ideal. At the bottom of the page they say: If you do not find your required date, please check for availability in our other houses: Cairndruie - next door, or Tighguish or Tighaline, both 50 metres away
You just have to be careful of the wild boar in the forest...
as opposed to the tame ones in the group?
There’s a fairly strong preference not to go away during the school holidays though, and an almost negligible preference towards October rather than September.
I heartily agree with every part of this sentence
The variable-by-area public holiday is one of the beauties of the Scottish "system", really cuts down on traffic nightmares. It's the English ones we really should avoid...Having done some research into Scottish half terms, the bad news is that every area has their own dates. Some take one week and others take two and they cover almost the whole of October!! However, the majority of areas seem to take either one week from 15-19 Oct or two weeks from 15-26 Oct, and I think the English half term holidays are mainly 22-26 Oct. Luckily, these are the weeks that are already affected by Carl's convention!!
Well that's all well and good young Carl but you have personally removed half of October from the list with your nerdy sci-fi attendance needs. .
I can be hard work, but I am worth it
If that weekend is best for everyone else, then I'll have to arrive a bit later or leave a bit earlier I would just not go to the convention, but I've been trying to get my mate to go since I went to the last one five years ago, and he's only just agreed
You're definitely worth it, if only to hear your pronunciation of 'fesh & cheps'!!
I don't think I have the right ears for it.I would totally be up for an F&C Trek meet
I would totally be up for an F&C Trek meet