American Reacts Scotland's Islands
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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I spent many a summer holiday in Scotland due to my father being Scottish (although we lived in England). The draw to return to the place of his birth remained with my father until the day he died.
My dad's father was a farmer close to Montrose in the east of Scotland. During WWII he had two Italian prisoners of war working for him on his farm. They became firm friends, with the Italians feeling they had really lucked out on not being sent to a prisoner of war camp. Instead they were able to use their pre-war skills working outdoors on my grandfather's farm. My grandfather remained friends with them post war and they took turns to visit each other's country until well into the 80s when my grandfather died.
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@@johnkean6852 Do you know what? .... I have considered writing a story about my father's upbringing. He was one of 8 children (the second child) of an itinerant farmer who was a pretty hopeless father. My dad's mother died in the early 1950s (after an exhausting life of giving birth year on year, raising her children and toiling hard to raise turkeys and geese to make a living) leaving the youngest child aged 3 to be brought up by the 2 oldest sisters. My grandfather seemed to have formed more of a realtionship with the Italian prisoners of war than he did with his own children. I was 7 when I first met him, at a relation's wedding, and I was chastised by my father for speaking to him!
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I hope you’re not in Brechin…..That would suck for you 🤣
Love this story.. and yes u can take the lad or lass out of Scotland but u can't take Scotland out the lad or lass xx
In Britain we have fries AND chips. Fries are the skinny french fries, which you'll get in mcdonalds/burger king etc. Chips are more chunky (usually about as thick as 2-3 fries) and are the ones you get as fish 'n' chips.
Canna beat fash and chips.
I kinda feel that it wasn’t made clear just how special Skara Brae is. It is part of a village that is older than both Stonehenge and The Pyramids (and I am referring to the buildings themselves) but it is showing the life of normal islanders.
And when you visit the site, although people cannot walk in the actual village to preserve it, there is a reconstruction of the village so you can get the sense of what it must have been like in those ancient times. There are many other tombs and interesting sites in Orkney, from Stoneage relics, through Viking times, and World Wars 1 and 2. All history is there.
That was a Celtic Cross
One of the theories about the shape of the celtic cross is that the rings are structural and help to support the horizontal part of the cross.
The circle represents "infinite love" with no beginning or end, or some believe it represents Christs halo.
A Rood.
I was told that the circle represents the sun- so that the power of the cross eclipses that of the sun.
The Black Cuillin Ridge was formed 60,000,000 years ago and is all that remains of an eroded magma chamber of a huge volcano. Comprised mainly of hard, rough gabbro rock and smoother basalt the ridge was sculpted into its current form by glacial activity and subsequent weathering over the millennia, which created the unique jagged character of the Ridge. The Red Cuillin are mainly made up of granite which was less resistant to the glaciers than gabbro, hence the rounded appearance of the hills.
Its wonderful that our laws prevent modern buildings on these priceless places. They would, in lots of
other countries, be commercialised and covered with holiday places, supermarkets, the usual
rubbishy stuff ! This is why the UK remains so beautiful !
Yes its an anthill Connor, we grow them big in Scotland. The haggis require a constant supply of ants.
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If he thinks that’s big, wait til he sees the ants
@@oufc90 And if he thinks the ants are big, wait til he sees some haggi!
@@carolineb3527 Haggi 🤣🤣🤣🤪
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I live near Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, the views are breathtaking. I feel blessed to live in such a beautiful area.😊
So do I 😁👍
I feel very blessed to live in it.
I am from Manchester northern England and visited Scotland a few times. It’s beautiful country to visit and it really needs a trip in person. Great video 😎👍
The Shetlands are even further north than the Orkneys. Rugged, historic, beautiful, and with gale force winds :) The comparison to Maine probably isn't far out - remember that just north of Maine is Nova Scotia ("New Scotland"), settled by Scots who were reminded of home. A lot of the Scottish islands are volcanic in origin, BTW - very old volcanoes, and mostly ground down into impressive shapes by Ice Age glaciers. The vertical cracks are caused by the lava cooling and cracking, almost always in characteristic hexagonal form (from Fingal's Cave to Devil's Tower in the US, to the Organ Pipes near where I live in New Zealand). And yes - the stones in those walls are the same ones as placed thousands of years ago. Peat is basically compacted ancient vegetation - you can think of it as coal that hasn't fossilised yet.
Maine and Nova Scotia are on the same rock formation, separated when the Atlantic was formed.
Very true! Most folk don't raise tat our Scotland broke off and latched on to England. Such a pity but I do have fabulous English family so don't be thinking badly of me.
Oh dear some bad typos from me.... soo sorry 😅
As a Scot I loved your reaction to this video, I'd love to see your reaction to actually visiting Scotland and some of the little known beautiful and historic places that are so abundant here. Not weird, but a reaction to the genuine interest in history and the beauty of nature
Beware, seagulls are the spitfire pilots of the bird world. They will watch and strike before you know it and take a full carton of fish and chips with them. I witnessed a seagull do this and it was immediately surrounded in mid-air by a flock trying to steal them. The seagull dropped his prize onto the lap of a young woman sitting on the beach reading a book. She was immediately surrounded by a flock of screeching gulls. Not very nice, but we couldn't stop laughing.
Chips have always been chips, American soldiers stoping in a Belgium village noted the locals frying the potato chips and because they thought the villagers were speaking French, they gave the new found food the name French fries, relative only in America.
Connor Scotland has extinct volcanos. My city of Dundee is built around an extinct volcano called the law hill. Edinburgh also has an extinct volcano etc.
it is not the law hill. it is the LAW, which is scots for hill
@@androidtv4589 I live here snd it is never written like that. It is always written as Law Hill and it is also how people talk about. I have never heard anybody refer to it as anything other than the Law Hill and i an 60 and my parents would have been in their 90's and even to them and all their siblings etc it was Law Hill or in typcall Dundee it would be the La Hill
There is often tautology in place names. 'The River Avon' and 'Burrow Mump' are ones close to where I live, but there are hundreds in the UK alone.
In my home town in the UK, we have an extinct volcano it's fondly known as old Ben ,it's been know to have a little rumble every so often but the worst that's ever happened when it has rumbled was our sofa move a few inches across the living room and the foundations of a near by school drama studio cracked and they had to lay a new floor.but that was around 30 years ago.
Sorry that you live in Dundee, mate.
Pure dingies eeh.
There are lots of volcanoes in Scotland, the most famous being Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, however Scotland is also ancient so the are all long extinct. I like how you always react to our Green grass, it's something we just take for granted.
I climbed Arthur's Seat just this summer, didn't realise it was a volcano 🌋😂
@@Maesterful Cool, best view of Edinburgh. It's some walk from Holyrood Park so kudus, it's steeper than you think. You can drive round the back but that's cheating 🤣
@@DMCDObidon Yeah the views were incredible and it was amazingly sunny! I climbed it from the back, was staying at a nearby university residence at the time
I love how he always comments on the grass, too. There is a kind of stereotype that England is so green. The hymn "Jerusalem" mentions "England's green and pleasant land."
And living here, taking it so much for granted too, my reaction to such commentary is usually something like, "Meh; it's not _that_ green!"
So when I hear people not born here commenting on it specifically, I feel happier and a little bit proud of it for a while.
And my next few trips into the countryside of Somerset are all the more beautiful for it.
The reaction to the green grass made me laugh too but I totally get it. I’ve lived in the county of Angus in the north east of Scotland my whole life apart from a time in my teens when we moved to Madrid in Spain for about 6 months.
I hadn’t realised how green Scotland was until I was flying back in and how beautiful the Angus Glens are.
I'm surprised the original video didn't refer to the composer Mendelssohn, who wrote the concert overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) in 1830, inspired by visits to Scotland around the end of the 1820s.
My grandmothers youngest brother moved to Orkney in his 20s from his home in city of Fife, he lived there until his death at 79 years of age. He used to make clocks from drift wood he was a very skilled craftsmen.
Good luck getting a house or rental property in Orkney these days.
Most of the houses have been bought up by bellends, who turned them into Air B&Bs.
It’s gotten so bad, that people native to Orkney can’t find homes to rent for their kids who are old enough to start out on their own.
Puffins can fly? Lol, puffins spend most of their time out on the sea, flying and swimming, they only set foot on land during nesting season (April to July). Fun fact, baby puffins are called... pufflings!
Conner don't worry about pausing. We are all learning with you!
I'm Welsh and loving this journey with you bud ❤
🥰ahh, Wales and the Welsh, beautiful lands and beautiful people.
I am Egyptian. I have been to Scotland. It is the the most fascinating place I have to. The scenery is marvelous. The people are hospitable.v. Everything is aweso awesome.
Good Vid, Hadrian's Wall the stones were basically Roman Standard Size, basically just bricks, 1FT x 8 Inches x 6 inches. I can remember my auntie Bea reciting a story of an American Officer arriving on Stornaway in a storm. The Station Commandants wife picked him up at the Port, to drive him to the base. When she asked him his name, which was Mc Donald, stopped the Land Rover Kicked him out and told him to walk in the middle of a storm. That's how bad it is.
The stones on Hadrian's wall are original- and you can see reused stones in old houses in the area, quite often- so it has been robbed but it's too much to be robbed out.
You are not weird when I visit historical places I like to stand there and imagine being there as it was back in time it's a weird but lovely feeling . Love watching your reaction to the scenery .I come from SCOTLAND and it still blows me away as to how beautiful it is. You must try to visit it. Xx
On my channel I have a couple of videos about British volcanoes and the history of drystone walls. I think most of us get a buzz out of touching things that people in ancient times also touched. Another good one , Connor. Scotland really is beautiful.
Drystone dykes, not walls.
@@Acheron666 Dykes or walls
As thick layers of molten lava slowly cool, they shrink and crack forming hexagonal columns. There are no active volcanoes in Scotland nowadays, but there have been several periods of intense vulcanicity, most recently about 60 million years ago.
Yes, the stones are the same. I too like to hold the stonework and think of the hands that laid them.
Your not weird , I felt the same when I went to Egypt. My mate thought I was weird until I explained it to him , then he understood .Rick never mentioned in 1919 the German High Seas fleet was incarserated in Scapa Flow and scuttled the whole fleet (I think it was 52ships ) rather than pass them over to the allies . The Shetland islands are farther North. 🇬🇧
Not weird at all. I love touching the burial stone of St. Margaret at Dunfermline Abbey.
I've been to Iona - can never forget the beautiful white sand and blue water.
11:18 Classic symptoms of a grass fetish attack. Nice to see my home area on your vids. :)
Yes, you are weird, but it is awe- inspiring to think about the people who touched the same stones, or walked on the same ancient roads and bridges. Lovely video, don’t worry about pausing, it’s a reaction channel, pausing is expected.
Yes I love standing in a space with defined history and thinking of those who went before us.
Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's seat are an extinct volcano which last erupted around 340 million years ago 😊
You're not far off with the macdonalds, they were the clan killed in the glencoe massacre by the Campbells. It was ordered by the Scottish secretary of state because they didn't sign allegiance to the English King in time.
But worst of all they did it whilst under the rule of hospitality, they were given shelter, food, etc and attacked the macdonalds in their sleep. That's why it's so notorious because it wasnt just a battle... They betrayed that common law.
Thus the famous Scottish saying...Never trust a Campbell.
Edinburgh Castle is bult on top of an inactive Volcano. Dumbarton Rock the same. Loch Lomond was a former glacier. So we have a lot of wonders for the eyes.
I want to mention another fabulously beautiful island, the Isle of Mull. My parents had a long retirement there, and, when my mother died, for five years I owned a house on the island, on the very road Rick used to go across Mull to Iona.There is so much beauty in the Highlands and Islands.
Hello mate, I live on one of the islands, great place in the summer, non stop daylight, not so great in the winter 😀 the cross was a celtic cross which is a symbol of the old gaelic/celtic Church, we still speak gaelic up in the Hebrides too
Fingal's cave is the Scottish end of the volcanic event that caused the giant's causeway in Ireland. The Shetlands are further north east from the Orkneys.
You are becoming more and more endearing ! I enjoy your site. Thank you !
You have something many do not have or understand and that is a passion for scenery and a high level of awareness. Nature is indeed wonderful [including the shades of green grass] nature can also be mighty destructive as we have seen and man does not need to add to the destruction.
I know what you mean about the feeling of being somewhere so ancient here in Wales a 10 minute walk away from where I live is the remains of a Norman Motte and Bailey castle.. Its as creepy as hell..
Always nice to see Orkney getting some representation x.
You should check out the sinking of the Royal Oak on 14th October 1939 by a U Boat in Scapa Flow briefly touched upon in the video. My mother's younger brother, aged 18, was one of the sailors lost in the sinking and we visited the site of the wreck when she was in her eighties. You can still see oil from the wreck coming to the surface..The event is still remembered every year by the laying of a Royal Ensign on the wreck by Royal Navy divers. The last survivor has now died.
Jay Foreman did a video on the geology of Scotland and England, how they were formed, and how Scotland used to be part of North America. It's called 'The World's Oldest Border?'.
At a guess, I would say that the circles on the Celtic cross represent the circle of life.
Yes that was my 1st thought as well. I'm not an expert on celtic Christian Religion.
The circle was used to hold the stone intact. Without it, the cross would break easily under the weight.
The Shetlands are further north than Orkney
The cross with a circle you asked about is called (The Celtic Cross) A whole topic in it's self.
I think I got this right: Scotland was formed by volcanoes about 600-700 million years ago. Scotland and Ireland broke off from America/Canada when the Atlantic formed. Being so old they are worn down a fair bit revealing those weird shaped rocks formed within volcanoes. You will find similar shaped rock along the coast of Canada, they are the same rocks!.
The MacDonalds and the Campbells, The two Highland clans at the centre of the Glencoe Massacre had a history of feuding. Their lineages are interwoven, with both clans having long histories linked to Robert the Bruce and the fight for independence.
The clan lineages can be traced back to the families Somerled and Crovan who were Norse/Gaelic. Robert the Bruce was part Norman on his father's side.
In Scotland we call fish and chips a fish supper. The fish on it's own is called a single fish when you order it. I suppose an unmarried mermaid would be a single fish.
The cross with the circle is a Celtic cross. As the man explained in the video most likely introduced by the Irish.
It was introduced to Argyll by St Columba and his followers in the early 6th century
Grass 🥰
I like the pauses, it means you're actually paying attention and taking it all in
Rick Steves also has a second different London video "London: Mod and Trad"
There's actually an anime fantasy movie based around the Abbey at Kells called "The Secret of Kells"
I recommend The Maggie. It's a film from the 50's about how they supplied the islands kind of. It was the end of an era. And quite funny.
That's sort of ths plot. However, it's much deeper than that and shows how Scottish industry had left behind the old transport boats that were once vital for the Highlands and Islands.
I had the same feeling when i touched the standing stones at Castlerigg and thought what a wonderful place to erect them with the view of the Lake District mountains .
I have lived on the mainland about 16 miles from John O'Groats for over 15 years and have never made it to Orkney, mainly because the ferry is so expensive. By the way, JOG is not the most northern tip of the mainland. Dunnet Head is.
The massacre of glencoe was perpetrated by the Campbell clan against the Mcdonalds.
"Puffins can fly?" This is interesting, because when I took children to Northumberland's Farne islands, they automatically thought that the puffins were penguins, and therefore couldn't fly. Puffins can indeed fly, quite clumsily, with their stubby little wings, but they manage.
Connor....you are swiftly becoming an honorary British eccentric. Well done! Robert, UK.
(p.s. 'How can you tell if someone is eccentric?
The first five characteristics on Weeks' list are found in most people regarded as eccentric:
Nonconforming.
Creative.
Strongly motivated by curiosity.
Happily obsessed with one or more hobbyhorses (usually five or six)
Aware from early childhood that they are different.
Intelligent.
Opinionated and outspoken.)'
Shit...you just described me to a T
Hey, native of Scottish highlands here and one of my close friends is a recent immigrant from conneticut - like you he sees a lot of home I. Scotlands scenery.
As you like connecting with ancient sites, I would suggest you have a look at Glen Roy- it’s a site of national scientific interest, and the perfect parallel “roads” halfway up the hills were created by the retreating glaciers of f the ice age … and untouched since!
Your points were so valid in this video, especially when you asked how far they would have to dig for the standing stones, have often wondered that myself
As an Englishman I'd say if you come here...sod London!!!!! go to Wales especially Caerdigon , the Peak District near where i live in Derbyshire, but don't miss Scotland and if you get chance the lake district too.
At 27:15 there's a view of cliffs and on the extreme left, the top of a sea stack called the Old Man of Hoy. It's 450 ft high and my son and his mate are going to climb it in May of this year. I'll have my fingers crossed until he gets down safely.
How is peat naturally formed?
Peat forms when plant material does not fully decay in acidic and anaerobic conditions. It is composed mainly of wetland vegetation: principally bog plants including mosses, sedges, and shrubs.
Connor, if you want to see farmer's stone walls, take a look at East Galway in Ireland.
Trees were common throughout Scotland and the Isles until humans cut them down for building and heating. Saplings struggle to mature into trees as they are eaten by sheep and have little protection from severe, salt-laden winds.
I’m watching this from the Isle of Mull. The cross is an ancient Celtic cross. Story says the columns of Staffa and the giants causeway were where the giants crossed over to fight each other, they say they are linked. Also at times your reaction is just brilliant ❤❤
Shetland is the island north of Orkney Island. Orkney is beautiful. I haven't been to the other, but I went to Orkney back in 2017. Went to Skara Brae, Maeshowe, and Stones of Stenness and the Ness of Broadgar and Ring of Broadgar.
Absolutely Love Orkney, been back there a few times.
Orkney is also popular with recreational divers, being one of the top ten dive sites worldwide. The WW1 German Fleet was scuttled in the vast natural harbour of Scapa Flow. It's around 40m deep in places, good visibility water, few currents and lots of German battleships to explore.
Im from shetland. You should definitely visit the island if you ever get the chance
i live in the isle of skye..best place in the world haha got some amazing pictures a few nights ago of the northern lights, and one was of the old man of storr in silhouette with the northern lights behind it, amazing.
Thr lava when cooled down is made from a harder rock than the rest of the volcano. The volcanoes themseves have now mostly worn away from thousands years of weather and a couple of ice ages, leaving behind the exposed lava columns.
Yes, that is where the Glencoe massacre occurred.
You need to book a flight to see the British Isles, Connor! 😊
Mountains divide us/And the waste of seas/But still the blood is strong/The heart is Highland/And we ,in dreams,behold the Hebrides
No Conner your not weird. I feel the same way. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
Hi Connor. That's mother nature at her finest. So stunning. So tranquil. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
The vertical lines in some of the rocks used to be horizontal, layers of sedimant settled on ancient sea beds, to create sedimentary rocks. Then they got pushed together and squished upwards by tectonic plate forces.
The deep green of that grass is like a painting
Loved your reaction - and your knowledge of our bonny country! 👏🏴
We have a hill like that in S Wales called the sugar loaf near Abergaveny.
The greatest feeling is to uncover something that hasn't been seen for thousands of years- I did some archaeology when I was at university in the holidays, and I found a decorated piece of Athenian vase-it's a rush.
The Celtic cross which is older than Christianity is thought to be an Navigation aid with a weighted notched captured ring like an Astrolabe, you hold the shaft in your hand and sight along the cross piece at a star then read of the elevation on the ring.
Im watching this from the Highlands. Both my parents were born in the Isle of skye but moved to the mainland as kids.i spent so many of my summers in skye.its, a truly beautiful part of the world. I hope you have the opportunity to visit Scotland someday. You won't regret it if you can handle the weather .lol.❤also, you're right. The macdonalds were the clan that was slaughtered in Glen Coe (fortwilliam), my mums maiden name .i came from two Scottish clans macdonald and Stewart.
Amazing how even the bodies are preserved ! ( tongue in cheek _!!!!
I grew up on the coast of the mainland just across from Skye. I miss it so much. I live on the isle of Åland now, between Finland and Sweden. Its lovely but nothing like ours Scottish isles. Feeling about homesick now.
I don't think wanting to touch the old stones and stuff is weird at all, it's a physical connection to the past.
I totally agree.
Conner, if you get the chance look up the 'Rudston monolith', it's a large neolithic standing stone in a small Yorkshire village not far from where I live. It's one of the largest of all the standing stones in the UK, it's said there is as much of the stone buried underground as there is visible above it(which is over 20ft).
The Celtic cross can be seen everywhere in Scotland and wales.
There are no active volcanoes in Scotland today but many features in Scotland's landscape were formed by volcanoes millions of years ago.
Trees don’t grow well in Orkney for several reasons: the soil is quite shallow, and the bedrock is close to the surface, so any trees which have a taproot just can’t thrive. The very high winds will blow over any tree which has managed to grow, because the roots are close to the surface. There is not much daylight in the winter, the islands are at 59 degrees north, so the sun rises after 9am and sets before 3pm in the depths of winter. There’s a lot of salt in the air, thanks to the high winds and the proximity to the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. So, fairly inhospitable to trees. I grew up on one of the medium sized Orcadian islands (population around 200), and I couldn’t wait to leave when I was a teenager. Now that I’m in my 50s, I wish I could go back - maybe when I retire.
So glad you enjoyed seeing our wonderful wee Nation 🏴You would love it if you came to visit.....just remember bug repellent if you want to visit our west coast in mid summer.....midges 🦟 are small but ferocious blood sucking creatures and attack in clouds of thousands at a time 😉
He's shown the ruins of the Nun's abbey. Iona Cathedral (Abbey) has been made complete and is full of visiting pilgrims and people staying for some weeks for the peace and calm of the island. Wonderful beaches too!
Touching things that are part of history knowing someone hundreds of years ago built it i love doing that
The Celtic Cross....the carving often shows a story from the Old Testamen and the other side is beautiful celtic carving work.
You said at the start you'd done Wales. I don't think you have! you should definitely check it out :)
Love your facial expressions during this vid though!
@McJibbin You were wondering where Shetland (the Shetland Islands) are. They are further north past Orkney. The man doing this video spoke as if Shetland doesn't exist! Regards from Shetland.
Ancestors from the Orkneys too, Clan Gunn. The first Clan Chief of Clan Gunn, was Norwegian, descended from the first Viking Jarl of the Orkneys. The coast near the islands a bit less isolated. In mythology, a shieldmaiden, Scathach, was the master warrior who trained Cuchulainn, the Bronze age superman of Ireland. Her castle is on the Isle of Skye.
Shame about the original Gunn castle. If it was still intact it would be an amazing castle, it's out on a tall skinny stack of rock just off the coast
My Aunt used to live in Orkney, some great memories on that little island!
Used to live on Skye in late seventies, early eighties: We ran wild; sheep in the garden; and the milk man would come into your house and place your milk in your fridge. My best friend was a thirteen year old girl, my Mum told me, I can't remember left the island when I was about six: We lived on the quiet part of the island; very few kids, the different ages played together. My mum used to hitchhike with me and my sister when dad was at work; there was a crime once: Somebody stole a packet of cigarettes from a car; it was big news.
Lol ofcourse Puffins can fly. How else would a bird get up a cliff face? 😅
The volcanic columns are caused when the lava cools. If you look at mud when it dries it has the same hexagonal shape but the lava is a lot deeper so you get hexagonal columns.
Yes the uk has a prehistoric volcanic history. I live in Devon and in exeter there is a castle called rougemont or red mountain whi h was an extinct volcano. Also there is a staely home nearby called Killerton which has an elevated hill as part of its landscape which is a feature which you can see from the M5 motorway which I use to tell me I am nearly home. Guess what...extinct volcano. Millions of years ago mind you so I do t think theres a risk of devon going up with a bang like yellowstone 🙂