Haha - "Shite on yer shoes", love it! Btw, Scottish horse towed the canalboats by swimming ahead of it. They were specially bred with webbed hooves and worked in teams of six, called a Kelpie!
@wewenang5167
Жыл бұрын
lmao
@faves36
Жыл бұрын
And their main diet consisted of live Haggis; captured from the local glens, and washed down with malt whisky 🥃
@eilidhwatson8406
Жыл бұрын
haha stop it
@anne-louisegoldie
Жыл бұрын
😂
@theywantusdead373
Жыл бұрын
Just about pissed myself 😂
@bigoz1977
Жыл бұрын
Spent 26 years living 10 miles south of Glasgow, it really is a great city. Scotland is a great country, one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Hopefully get back there later this year as I live in Australia now.
@abigail1st
Жыл бұрын
I live in Stirling where I grew up, so I’ve been to all these places around me, many times in my life. The Falkirk Wheel is a wonder of engineering and well worth a visit. The Kelpies are magnificent especially at night when they are lit from inside with varying colours. Scotland is such a beautiful country with so much history and so much to see, you really must visit 💚🏴
@mairiconnell6282
Жыл бұрын
Ditto I am from Balloch, Loch Lomond.
@frglee
Жыл бұрын
The very best content by Rick Steve - entertaining, educational, interesting - well filmed and done with style. Something that was well worth reacting to.
@sandrapaterson8678
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant 😊 a proud native of Scotland 🏴 ❤
@ladykaycey
Жыл бұрын
That was a fun video, especially the Highland Games. I used to be a Highland Dancer. It takes alot of stamina. I remember all the dances but I think I'd have a heart attack if I tried doing them now lol
@sndrka12
Жыл бұрын
Me too Karen, I remember all the steps but it would kill me ha ha
@ladykaycey
Жыл бұрын
@@sndrka12 🤣🤣
@Alistair14
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow (pronounced GLAZ-GO) is 30 miles from where I am sitting - wonderful city, I spent the vast majority of my working life in the city, and was my home for many years too.
@philc3912
Жыл бұрын
The Falkirk wheel is genius engineering it takes only a few Kwh to turn it because the gondolas carrying the barges are automatically always exactly the same mass on either side no matter how much either barge is loaded. A full barge can go up while an empty barge goes down because enough water is displaced out of the "heavier" gondola to perfectly balance with the "lighter" one.
@gordieparenteau6555
Жыл бұрын
You don't need to have a drop of Scottish blood in ya to love the sound of bagpipes. It just stirs something in the soul. There's a reason Canadian soldiers in the World Wars had a bagpiper play them into battle.
@rozhunter7645
Жыл бұрын
I live about halfway between Glasgow and Stirling, I don’t visit Glasgow so much but Stirling is my stomping ground. Love your reaction to my home 🏴
@petertimoney3436
Жыл бұрын
He never mentioned it, but the castle in the background with the piper was Inveraray Castle. With its gardens, nearby sea loch and 18thC planned village it really is a lovely area.
@whir4us
Жыл бұрын
Noticed that. My grandmother was a cook there in the 1920s
@ayeready6050
Жыл бұрын
James the sixth of Scotland is the confusing King you are thinking of. He inherited the English throne while still King of Scotland in 1603 in an event known as the Union of the Crowns. Scotland and England were still independent kingdoms from each other but both ruled by James. He is also known as James the first (of England) because there had not been any Kings of England named James prior to him.
@ayeready6050
Жыл бұрын
@@talorcmacallan4268 stop slavering pish
@anne-louisegoldie
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow has its own whisky distillery too, right on the River Clyde, in a building that was part of the shipbuilding industry. St Mungo is the affectionate name for St Kentigern, mungo means darling. I live in Glasgow, we also have a Viking history that connects St Mungo to the Kings of Strathclyde. You'll have to visit here 💛, bring your wellies and your waterproofs, it rains a lot 🌦️ (Edinburgh is drier but colder, and completely different. ) 😊xx
@Leo-pf3cd
Жыл бұрын
Enjoyable video of Glasgow showing a lot of the really nice places to go here and our great art work. Also other places in Scotland aswell
@darrenbuckley2082
Жыл бұрын
Sent you a link for the Falkirk wheel bud.
@stevenclarksongs
Жыл бұрын
James the 6th of Scotland becames James 1st of England - so he gets known as James the First and Sixth.
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
Walter Scott wrote many famous novels , inc Ivanhoe 👍🏴
@DavidUKesb
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow is miles better than Edinburgh. I'm English so not biased. Glasgow people are so friendly and you could spend a week there without running out of things to do.
@williammacrae6119
Жыл бұрын
Aye edinburgh's shite
@georgemoffat797
Жыл бұрын
Talking shite
@jeeevvvoooooo3034
Жыл бұрын
Eehhhhh no sure about that one
@yomrwhite607
Жыл бұрын
get the f out scotland we want our independance you tory
@INSA.NEL.Y
Жыл бұрын
im from glasgow and hate edinburgh for no reason hate the place hate the accents hate most the people 😭
@ronniel5941
Жыл бұрын
The piping demonstration was at Inverary Castle, and the ending was at Eilean Donan Castle - a long distance apart, but well worth visiting.
@eilidhwatson8406
Жыл бұрын
the Falkirk wheel is pretty special, I went on it for the first time a few years ago and its just incredible how it works
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
Gotta say my eyes got a bit wet there when he was at the Highland games and the pipes were playing 👍🏴
@squeezyjohn1
Жыл бұрын
I know that accordion player!! ... when he was a baby I was in the same car when we had a nasty accident ... fortunately neither me nor him were injured. He's a great player now.
@h-Qalziel
Жыл бұрын
Tom Scott did a video on the Falkirk Wheel. It really is a special piece of engineering. I would also highly recommend looking into Charles Rennie Mackintosh a bit more. I don't think people understand how important he and his wife was to the world.
@williambranch4283
Жыл бұрын
There is a new video, where they found graves of soldiers from the AR battle of Camden, one of them was a British Highlander, the Scots came all the way to the States to honor this one lost soldier.
@cherylbush9780
Жыл бұрын
Thank you McJibbin, cannot remember when last I enjoyed a KZitem video that much. Have subcribed, in appreciation. Much love to you and family from the Irvine valley in East Ayrshire, Scotland and the sight of the iconic, extinct volcano and it's plug, known as Loudoun Hill standing proudly over the surrounding landscape, a truly awe inspiring place of silence and ancient spirits,. It was here where two important battles were fought and won during the Scottish wars of independence against the English, first by William Wallace in 1297 and then by Robert the Bruce in 1307.
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
Your comment that some paintings just make you happy , I absolutely agree with you 👍 yes look up the Falkirk wheel IMO it’s a world engineering wonder 👍🏴
@ladykaycey
Жыл бұрын
I live the next county along from Falkirk and I've been to the Falkirk Wheel a few times. It's fascinating to watch it in action and tourists can go on it.
@robertreape
Жыл бұрын
So you are in North Lanarkshire then.
@ladykaycey
Жыл бұрын
@@robertreape No, I'm not. I'm in Fife. As you know, a few counties are next to Falkirk 🙂
@robertreape
Жыл бұрын
@@ladykaycey yeah i know i could have picked from a least four and i picked the wrong one.
@ladykaycey
Жыл бұрын
@@robertreape it was a good try though lol 😃
@robertreape
Жыл бұрын
@@ladykaycey I live just a few minutes from the wheel and North Lanarkshire is just a few miles along from the wheel
@AD270479
Жыл бұрын
They got the horses to pull the barges by swapping their hooves with flippers. We also used to get them to pull our trains by swapping the flippers for wheels... We left pulling our planes to the unicorns.
@janettesinclair6279
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha !
@alfiekelly5914
11 ай бұрын
James VI of Scotland was James I of England. He was the the son of Mary, Queen of Scots. I'm impressed by your knowledge of Scotland. Well done
@boz1810
Жыл бұрын
The Glasgow City crest depicts a tree, a wild robin, a bell and a fish with a ring in its mouth. All of them are connected with the legends of St Mungo, also known as St Kentigern
@aprilodonnell2830
Жыл бұрын
That’s right and the poem goes….. The tree that never grew, The bird that never flew, The fish that never swam and The bell that never rang.
@aprilodonnell2830
Жыл бұрын
It’s Glasgow’s Coat of Arms…. All four of the symbols depicted in the coat of arms are attributed to legends regarding Saint Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow. St Mungo, who founded the monastery which is now Glasgow Cathedral, died in the year 603 and his feast day was set to the January 13. Given how far in the past St Mungo lived his life, the stories and legends of his time can vary. Most people remember the symbols depicting his relationship with Glasgow by the following short poem.
@steviepower9194
Жыл бұрын
The guy was saying shite on your shoe lol
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
Yeah the battle of Stirling Bridge was a William Wallace one , you’ve heard it from Braveheart probably . lol you got that one right . I think the black paint on the cannons is just a relatively modern anti rust paint an wouldn’t have been original . 👍🏴
@petejones7878
Жыл бұрын
the horses can tow a barge , as they are trained to swim at a very early age
@clarekennedy6270
Жыл бұрын
Lol 😂. Also you might be lucky and see a great wild haggis 😅😉
@DavidUKesb
Жыл бұрын
I've lost count of the number of distilleries I've visited in Scotland.
@daviel6595
Жыл бұрын
AA
@Worldagenda24
Жыл бұрын
Go you 😊 🥂🥃
@alisonrodger3360
Жыл бұрын
He actually said Falkirk correctly, I mean local would be Faw-kirk, but Fall-kirk is good. I once watched a whole documentary about the Wheel & not once did he get right, drove me nuts. Falkirk has been famed for many things down the years - battles, bits of Antonine Wall, cattle trysts, cannons & red telephone boxes 😁 Surprised he didn't nip along to Linlithgow Palace. You should check out the Billy Connolly murals.
@eyesofisabelofficial
Жыл бұрын
The Royal Navy still has it's frigates and Destroyers built on the Clyde.
@stewrmo
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow is a great place, our "dear green place". If you ever make it over here Connor I offer a local guided tour, free! 💙
@georgedrever
Жыл бұрын
As a Scot who lives near Stirling I loved seeing your reactions. And don't believe folk who say Glasgow is better than my home town Edinburgh, it's not. Wait until you see where Edinburgh Castle is, it will blow your mind...
@bblair2627
Жыл бұрын
Also "mon the teddy bears on Sunday" 🐻❤🤍💙🧡 - I drive past Stirling castle each day, its just doon the road fae the hoose.
@ayeready6050
Жыл бұрын
For there's not a team like the Glasgow Rangers 🏴🇬🇧
@bblair2627
Жыл бұрын
@@ayeready6050 no, not one, an there never shall be one
@johnmcgarrell5057
Жыл бұрын
This is our city 💚☘️😆
@GlasgowCelticforever1888
10 ай бұрын
@@ayeready6050your spot on there son. They died in 2012 so you’re absolutely right.
@illasbonez1708
Жыл бұрын
I can see Stirling Castle and Wallace's Monument from my window 😁
@MynameisPaul.
Жыл бұрын
Ben Nevis is so beautiful to climb, there are pockets of lakes in the mountain, really nice that there is a decomishioned weather hut on the summit, filled with snacks by others who reached the peak for anyone who may have travelled light when walking up..no view and few to no people at the peak, nor can you see well due to the fine rain like snow, so stone clusters help guide you instead, my condolences to anyone who reaches the peak as the sun is going down, as you'll go walking back in the dark, prompting helicopters to look for you. As almost happened. :p Will get there by sunrise next time on the longest days, as those mountain lakes need to be explored.. come on Summer!!! Forgot I was using my Father's tablet after he forgot to take it. :p
@tasha1721
Жыл бұрын
Ive climbed ben nevis a couple of times. Never got a view either! Just the experience of being inside a cloud! The rock clusters are called cairns.
@jonathangoll2918
Жыл бұрын
For a short while my parents had a flat in Glasgow, and I often passed through. His comments about the Glaswegians are spot on - it is a very friendly city. The whole UK plays bowls. Whereas many areas play Flat Green Bowls, here in the West Midlands of England many play Crown Green Bowls, where the green is deliberately not made flat, and each green is different. Stirling is at the end of the Firth of Forth. There is no big distance between the Firths of Forth and Clyde. Anybody trying to get between southern and northern Scotland has to go through this narrow gap; but this is further narrowed at Sterling because a huge bog - Flanders Moss - was impassable for armies, further west was dense woods, mountains, and a huge lake - Loch Lomond. Therefore there was only a strip a few miles wide any army could go, with Sterling Castle blocking it! I have not visited the Speyside distilleries, but the Upper Spey is one of the most beautiful places I know. There are virgin forests - not densely packed together like plantations - of a very beautiful tree, the Scots Pine, and the pure light is extraordinary.
@brownwarrior6867
Жыл бұрын
The paths on the side of the canals are known as Tow Paths as these were used by the Horses to tow the barge along the waterway.
@wboyle9721
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow is still recovering today with the mistakes of the past glasgow always re invents itself with new regeneration projects hopefully the city will improve even more glaswegians are friendly witty and very helpful
@lorrainehamilton5051
10 ай бұрын
Good video & comments...but my back teeth kept grinding at the sight of Bamburgh Castle in the background! (Bamburgh is in Northumberland, ENGLAND)
@lsp_showtek94
Жыл бұрын
There is also some street art in my area in Glasgow, its everywhere
@DoctorAkikoFukuwara
Жыл бұрын
4:53 Rick: So the people here are really friendly? Man in distance: YA PEDO!!! Perfect comedic timing 😂
@no-oneinparticular7264
Жыл бұрын
Probs too much whisky 😅
@josephturner7569
Жыл бұрын
Lawn green bowling is just an adaptation of petanque. The French game played with cannon shot. Because, the Auld Alliance.
@fishingstevie8830
9 ай бұрын
Whisky in Scotland is mostly all made in the Highlands of Scotland like the part seen in the video is just one of many . Whisky is Scotlands largest export to the World with both Blended but also Scotlands unique Malt Whiskies which is only country in the World well known for its making of Malt Whiskies .
@auldfouter8661
Жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather Allan Carswell was a school master - but also a farmer in his later years and he farmed North Greens at Airth ( where the games were held in the video).
@marierobertson8267
Жыл бұрын
This was like a weird educational vid we wer shown in school but i actually loved it 😂
@monkee1969
Жыл бұрын
Brings bird back to life - Connor 'Harry Potter?' Me - 'Paul!!'
@fibrown444
Жыл бұрын
I met Rick years ago when I met when I worked in a museum in Edinburgh, only after did I discover who he is.
@rohnnyjotten3985
Жыл бұрын
I was standing outside Kelvingrove, 10 mins before watching this video :)
@josephturner7569
Жыл бұрын
😂 that union jack is upside down. You know what that means 😄😅😂
@clarekennedy6270
Жыл бұрын
Love your video . 🏴🏴🏴
@TheFabulousScot
Жыл бұрын
The original Kelvingrove Museum opened in 1876.[3] It was housed in a much enlarged 18th-century mansion called Kelvingrove House, to the north-east of the current site, Which then the new museum was built back to front in error and that the architect committed suicide when he realised what had happened - the tale is always strenuously denied of course, but it`s part of Glasgow folklore.
@betawan3195
Жыл бұрын
like australians we call everyone mate till you aint lol ,,,Harry potter reference mungo could be from the town she mentioned only in the books ,one which they flew over in the car has a famous mungo ,hadnt thought of that till you said it .Battle of stirling bridge was genius in warfare using a macedonian Alexander the great style combat ,15 foot long spears or sarissa against a mounted charge
@fionawood2473
Жыл бұрын
If you look from above at the Kelpies it's in the shape of a horse shoe
@williambranch4283
Жыл бұрын
Iron cannon could do with a wee bit of black paint to keep off the rust
@Snick989
Жыл бұрын
lovely video! :)
@suerogerts4330
Жыл бұрын
Loved this video brilliant xx
@martinmillar7137
7 ай бұрын
Glasgow is a very harsh city but underneath its beautiful... Like a lot of cities i guess... Glasgow is special though as it was and still is a jewel of the industrial revolution that somehow got forgot about despite it exsisting even before london did. Its a touchy subject.. most Glaswegians cannae wait to tell ye they are from there...that in itself speaks volumes ❤
@johnshawdocherty7594
Жыл бұрын
If you visit go up the Highlands m8 especially Orkney words can't explain it really
@blusinboxes6466
Жыл бұрын
Where’s the Ned’s and junkies ?
@jamesm875
Жыл бұрын
At the top right of the letter N in Stirling at 2.36 is where I stay 😁
@robertreape
Жыл бұрын
He travelled the whisky trail in the Highlands but travelled to the central belt for the highland games.
@burants89
2 ай бұрын
Battle of Stirling battle William Wallace won the battle, Robert the Bruce won at Bannocknurn but it’s commonly known that it was his general Murray who was the mastermind behind the victory
@user-ue2ul1hs2e
7 ай бұрын
Remember ya water,lol😮😂😂😂
@lisamurphy2129
Жыл бұрын
Me sitting looking for ammunition incase you dare insult my country lol 😂😂❤
@fredjones234
Жыл бұрын
You should do a video on shetland
@staticcentrehalf7166
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed that.
@annpartoon5300
Жыл бұрын
I could tell you really enjoyed the video greay to see
@allybrough
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Scotland ❤️🏴 live in Dundee. This is great
@MrLuck88
Жыл бұрын
Americans say Glasgow like "Glass Cow" - Must people hate the bagpipes, the guy totally missed Northern Ireland which is also part of the UK.
@belindakennedy5828
Жыл бұрын
Your Appalachian mountians are full of scots and Irish even today,canada also.😊
@williambranch4283
Жыл бұрын
Love old Rick Steves travel videos
@PerryCJamesUK
Жыл бұрын
Oit, Connor, You should learn violin. I started at around 7 and picked it up fast, as I am certain you will. They do say learning an instrument keeps your mind young and helps ward off many diseases of age. You never get bored when you have an instrument to devote time and thought to.
@aalexjohna
Жыл бұрын
I play the pink oboe every night under the duvet.
@gabbymcclymont3563
Жыл бұрын
The word plad makes me nuts its fing Tartin
@naiboz
Жыл бұрын
Argyll Campbell here, Rick, get aff my lawn 😂
@BC_26fhj
Жыл бұрын
I stay 5 minutes drive from the wheel
@maryavatar
Жыл бұрын
JK Rowling lives in Scotland, so yes, the hospital in the books was probably named after Saint Mungo.
@robertgalloway3771
Жыл бұрын
Highland Dancing is a mans dancing, The Sword Dance Gillie Callum, for a victory, a successful cattle raid, Seinn Briogais(OLD Trousers)first part is dancing in trousers, the faster second part is the freedom of dancing in the Kilt, there are others, the Hawaiian Hula for men and women also used for story telling!
@davie8906
Жыл бұрын
Alcohol,the common like between Scots and our American cousins. We ❤ you all.
@burants89
2 ай бұрын
You should Google neptunes staircase if you like canals
@lyndamcleod2242
Жыл бұрын
It’s called the Heiland man’s umbrella ! True Scottish! Take care from Scotland 🏴
@seanmc1351
Жыл бұрын
i think there are over 4000 castles in the british isles
@mairiconnell6282
Жыл бұрын
Glass go! Think of the phonetics. Does anyone know the Highlands umbrella? As a Scots Highland Dancer I would have loved to see more.
@1951woodygeo
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow is my home town
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
🤦♂️ GLAZ-GO… is the more used pronunciation round here Conor 👍🏴
@forbesmeek6304
Жыл бұрын
Glezga.
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
@@forbesmeek6304 if your implying the majority of Scotland calls it Glezga then you know your incorrect right ? I’m from Govan and am well aware lots of us Glaswegians use that term , not all weegies though and def not most Scot’s -we cool ? 👍🏴
@forbesmeek6304
Жыл бұрын
Some Weegies are hauf biled like Govan for instance. Edinburgh folk, unless they're hauf biled, call it Glesgie Ken. Lanarkshire is doon the road fae me and Glesga is common there. Nae hope fur them. Glezga is a shibboleth, by that word shall u know them.
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
Жыл бұрын
@@forbesmeek6304 away ya shtoopit Tim Bawbag ffs 🤦♂️ .. I call it Glezga when I’m talking to friends n family but otherwise it’s Glazgo to other Scot’s n nice but dim Tims from England . You probably only say Glezga when your trying to buy K or Diazepam doon the schemes.. 😆 👍🏴
@no-oneinparticular7264
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a video of the workings of the Falkirk wheel.
@Zippy66
Жыл бұрын
There's a good one on KZitem. Hopefully Connor will come across it
@1951woodygeo
Жыл бұрын
It’s called a fiddle in Scotland 🏴 not a violin
@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow is Gaelic for green place: Glaschu
@albacan
Жыл бұрын
Scotland, without Glasgow, is a beautiful country.
@davie8906
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a Scottish name "Johnathan brown" 🤨 englistani interloper
@josephturner7569
Жыл бұрын
How does a horse tow a barge? Well yeah. That's what the tow path was for. Did you think they were rowed? Canals predated the industrial revolution.
@robertelliott2026
Жыл бұрын
Glasgow silent 'w' Glasgo
@josephturner7569
Жыл бұрын
He didn't mention Glasgows Grand Ole Opry in Paisley road West. The home of Scotlands Country and Western live music. Often dreadful but mostly a good night out.
@1951woodygeo
Жыл бұрын
Battle of Stirling Bridge was William Wallace
@BrianMac2601
Жыл бұрын
I was a bit worried about watching this at first because often things arent exactly correct in videos in my country and city of Glasgow, especially done by Americans, but he done not bad.
@davidhamilton6428
Жыл бұрын
How does a horse pull a barge? lol obviously never seen a clydesdale.
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