The Best Time To Visit

The Scottish climate is oceanic, temperate currents by "warm" up the coast. It rains often and frequently very strong, mainly on the north-west. This is not innocent if one says that the Scots invented the kilt in order to avoid wetting their pants down! If the hot temperatures easily reach Edinburgh 18 ° in summer, sunburn are quite rare ... Edinburgh and Glasgow can be visited in winter, however, it is preferable to have the summer months to visit Scotland. (May to September). But if skiing is your motivation, upland areas will welcome you at 1000 meters.

In principle this is not the purpose of this description to highlight an aspect of forbidding any country. Yet people susceptible to insect stings should be aware that in Scotland there is a formidable little pest named "Midge." If you are not sinful, it offers no other attraction that voracious and formidable special move in staggering numbers. To top it all, no conventional repellent seems to bother. The parades are only to dress up in beekeeper places it haunts. The lochs are a favorite for this charming animal naturally chooses the highest tourist season for tourists blithely gobble distracted or not-warned. She does however not cold, nor wind ... like tourists. By cons, she does not like the sun that the tourist loves ... But alas, the sun is more rare than these horrors. Campers will choose their nets, taking into account the very small size of the intruder: 2mm long and 1.4mm wide. It is not uncommon to be propelled out of his tent at crack of dawn by a buzzing horde. And as long as you embark on some unwanted passengers during a threading freestyle shorts ... then you will dance a wild jig!

Check with local pharmacies to determine the most effective repellent. And pharmacies are not in the pubs! Needless to say that the Scotch whiskey is a panacea. Even friction!

Well, we ended with "désagréabletés.

Land of legends combined with an imagination fed on a fantastic bestiary, inhabited since ancient times of rough men, forged in a land swept by wind and mist caressed, rugged coasts of vague fault-finding, Scotland engages under a sky of angry clouds whose shadow runs on the ground before climbing the mountains.

Attached to the south of England, all the other coasts of Scotland are carved by the North Sea, Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Rich 800 islands of which the three groups most famous are the Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides, Scotland has sought to preserve its cultural identity in the absence of political autonomy.

Although relatively modest altitude, much of Scotland is mountainous. The highest peaks are Ben Nevis (1343 m) and Ben Macdui (1309 m) in the Grampian Mountains. (The name of this mountain was also given another mountainous region in the Australian state of Victoria).

The ascent of Ben Nevis requires a certain physical condition. Approximately 8 hours are needed to make the return on steep slopes that will reward you with an extraordinary view ... if the show clouds and mild temperatures if the negative does not bully your ears.
Hikers traversing a wilderness where the flora and fauna alongside the historic heritage. Here, the lochs seem to have reason to be than serving as a mirror to the mountains and castles multi centenarians who contemplate it.

Loch Ness is love in the Glen More fault that cuts the Highlands. On the north shore, the ruins of Uhrquart - one of the most famous castle in Scotland - is one of the most popular attractions. Devastated by an explosion in 1692, his remains guard the secrecy of Loch millennium.

North-west of Glasgow, another lake, whose name is not without evoking extends on both sides of the Highland Boundary Fault, a natural border between the Highlands and Lowlands. Here hikers will cross the "West Highland Way is the most used circuit in Scotland. Any region girdling the Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond has become the first Scottish National Park.

Cities are no exception! An hour's drive from each other, Edinburgh and Glasgow vibrate intensely.

Edinburgh:

It's your choice! Festival Jazz and Blues Edinburgh Festival 'Fringe'. More than 1 000 daily performances of theater, music and comedy make it the biggest festival in the world.
The many historical sites will fill fans with a troubled history and often tragic. Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, now home of the Queen in Scotland, where the park is a haven of rustic 263 acres, the new Scottish Parliament or even the Writer's Museum devoted to Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott. Maker's Court immortalizes Scottish literature: its slabs are engraved quotations from famous literary authors Scotland.

The history of the national drink will be told by the Scotch Whiskey Heritage Center.

For all lovers of legends and ghosts will go down the Royal Mile. They can visit, guided by a historical figure of Edinburgh, Mary King's Close. Remains of several lanes, it is said that the souls of victims of the plague of 1644 continue to haunt the city ... The claustrophobic opt for the "ghost tour" of the day or night by their courage. Surprises guaranteed!


Glasgow:

The eternal rival Edinburgh is much more Scottish. It has, among other peculiarities, one of the oldest subway in the world after those in London and Budapest. He has only one circular line and is called ... "Clockword Orange"!

The Gothic Cathedral St Mungo is the only surviving mainland reform of 1560. Built on a sacred site, it marks the birthplace of the city.

The Hunterian Museum (devoted to the collection amassed by the renowned anatomist of the seventeenth century Sir William Hunter), the St Mungo Museum of Religious and impressive collection assembled by Sir William Burrell during his travels around the world will be so many steps enriching cultural .

In August, only missed the amazing bagpipe competitions, the "World Pipe Band Championship," famous competition involving the greatest bands in the world.

Do not deprive yourself to use the line railway from Glasgow to the Western Highlands. The landscape traversed fill promises toes of walkers. Others, unwilling to torment, filled the eyes without fatigue ...

So to say yet. Do justice to Scotland can not be done by a Scotsman. Point am. I also reached on a tip: wear the kilt does not improvise! The draft, devious and sneaky, you will regret the lederhosen, which they, as n'enrhument knees ...

- Capital: Edinburgh
- Population: 5 062 011 inhabitants. (2008)
- Area: 79 782 km2
- Politics: Nation Constitution of the United Kingdom
- Official language: English, Scots, Scots.
- Currency: Pound Sterling (£ 1 = € 1.258)

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