Buckster Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I was hoping to do this at the beginning of June but things being as they are it is on hold. North coast 500 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I think just about everything is out of the window this year Ian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Burning Can will survive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catteeclan Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I like Scotland but it's nearly always wet. Been a few times on the bikes, some of the locals are great others let you know they don"t want you there. Prob still go back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Catteeclan said: I like Scotland but it's nearly always wet. Been a few times on the bikes, some of the locals are great others let you know they don"t want you there. I wonder why that might be Dave? @Specs @Sir Fallsalot.........you ever experienced this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catteeclan Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, XTreme said: I wonder why that might be Dave? @Specs @Sir Fallsalot.........you ever experienced this? Stop it.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 19 minutes ago, Catteeclan said: I like Scotland but it's nearly always wet. Been a few times on the bikes, some of the locals are great others let you know they don"t want you there. Prob still go back again. Just affect a French accent and they'll roll out the red carpet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, Catteeclan said: Stop it.  Here's a true story Dave! When I came over here in October 2005 I needed to return the hire car back to the UK. Got lost somewhere in France in the early hours of the morning and stopped at a service area to get directions. The cafe was full of truckers and I tried my best to get across that i needed to get back to Britain. They weren't remotely interested in helping me. Then thinking back to French I did in school I remembered "Pays de Galles" (Wales) and told them I was from there. Total change! They all wanted to shake my hand and buy me coffee. A few of them could even speak decent English and were telling me about how welcome they were made in Cardiff when they went there for the rugby. They fucking loved the Welsh! Eventually one of them said to follow him and he got me back on the motorway. Now I'm not saying it's a disadvantage being English.......it's more a case of having an advantage if you're not!  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Scotland fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of beer and singing England fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of been and police escorts back to catch an early flight home 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 The sun always shines here, reports of rain are fake news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Buckster said: The sun always shines here, reports of rain are fake news. What made you decide to go to Edinburgh Ian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 You mean other than the tropical climate? My grandparents were from Methlick near Aberdeen, I spent summers there as a child and we went to Edinburgh a few times. It had good memories for me. I wanted to live somewhere with good infrastructure and resources and somewhere where reformed theology was practiced and it is a beautiful city and a gateway to incredible countryside. Far enough from my elderly mother so she does not expect me to be around all the time but close enough to get there quickly should I need to. I love it here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 37 minutes ago, Buckster said: You mean other than the tropical climate? My grandparents were from Methlick near Aberdeen, I spent summers there as a child and we went to Edinburgh a few times. It had good memories for me. I wanted to live somewhere with good infrastructure and resources and somewhere where reformed theology was practiced and it is a beautiful city and a gateway to incredible countryside. Far enough from my elderly mother so she does not expect me to be around all the time but close enough to get there quickly should I need to. I love it here. Nice one! I've never even been to Scotland! In fact I've never been anywhere other than Spain.......apart from driving through France on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 6 hours ago, XTreme said: Here's a true story Dave! When I came over here in October 2005 I needed to return the hire car back to the UK. Got lost somewhere in France in the early hours of the morning and stopped at a service area to get directions. The cafe was full of truckers and I tried my best to get across that i needed to get back to Britain. They weren't remotely interested in helping me. Then thinking back to French I did in school I remembered "Pays de Galles" (Wales) and told them I was from there. Total change! They all wanted to shake my hand and buy me coffee. A few of them could even speak decent English and were telling me about how welcome they were made in Cardiff when they went there for the rugby. They fucking loved the Welsh! Eventually one of them said to follow him and he got me back on the motorway. Now I'm not saying it's a disadvantage being English.......it's more a case of having an advantage if you're not!   You're not wrong Pete. On one of our trips to the Pyrenees we were stopped at a cafe somewhere in France. The patron brought out the coffee's and then proceeded to check out the bikes. He got excited when he saw the Welsh flags on some of the bikes, he asked if we were Welsh. As I was the best French speaker I told him that they were all Welsh except for me . He asked where I was from, when I told him I was English he looked at me and spat on the floor . All my mates pissed themselves laughing, I just laughed along with them 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Yeh @boboneleg......it seems the French really don't like the English! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catteeclan Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 8 hours ago, XTreme said: Here's a true story Dave! When I came over here in October 2005 I needed to return the hire car back to the UK. Got lost somewhere in France in the early hours of the morning and stopped at a service area to get directions. The cafe was full of truckers and I tried my best to get across that i needed to get back to Britain. They weren't remotely interested in helping me. Then thinking back to French I did in school I remembered "Pays de Galles" (Wales) and told them I was from there. Total change! They all wanted to shake my hand and buy me coffee. A few of them could even speak decent English and were telling me about how welcome they were made in Cardiff when they went there for the rugby. They fucking loved the Welsh! Eventually one of them said to follow him and he got me back on the motorway. Now I'm not saying it's a disadvantage being English.......it's more a case of having an advantage if you're not!  I'm not surprised. It's the same old thing though, I've done nothing to offend the foreign twats.  7 hours ago, Pedro said: Scotland fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of beer and singing England fans come to Porto for soccer, huge amounts of been and police escorts back to catch an early flight home I fuckin hate football. Any fight I had in me died many moons ago. Too old and can't be arsed. 3 hours ago, Buckster said: The sun always shines here, reports of rain are fake news. You big fat liar. You'll be selling water to us when the world over heats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 I’m not fat, I’m big boned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 10 hours ago, XTreme said: I wonder why that might be Dave? @Specs @Sir Fallsalot.........you ever experienced this? I've experienced the wet but the locals were all fine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 13 hours ago, XTreme said: I wonder why that might be Dave? @Specs @Sir Fallsalot.........you ever experienced this? Only once when I got beaten up in a nightclub in Dumbarton. Long story with a woman involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 9 hours ago, Specs said: Only once when I got beaten up in a nightclub in Dumbarton. Long story with a woman involved. You got beaten up by a woman in Dumbarton some of those Scottish girls are rough 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share Posted May 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said: You got beaten up by a woman in Dumbarton some of those Scottish girls are rough Some of those Dumbarton girls....they drink directly from the Clyde. I’m saying nothing else as it is only 50 miles from here and I don’t want to wake up dead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Was in a club with her when this bloke turned up giving her grief. As he went to thump her, I got my punch in first, as you do, laid him out, then two of his mates joined in. When the bouncers turned up they realised that I was Welsh and joined in as well. I got used as a football down some stairs. Cracked my nose and headache for a couple of weeks. Transpires that the guy who started it shared a cell with the woman's ex and was out to cause trouble. Savages. Cops came along and wanted to press charges but I let it go, thinking that revenge is best served cold. I was up there years later but the club had closed down. Shit happens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Be nice to the English! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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