Enjoy ! One of the loveliest places and nicest people around!

Hope that you get the weather for walking 

Thank you everyone !

My planes and trains stop and start in places I've no idea where they are - Stirling? Inverness?

Partly because one train has been cancelled already - which is on the back of a plane to France being cancelled - seriously - what's so difficult about actually running the schedule you're promised to do ?!?!!? (and NB these cancellations were nothing to do with any storm or anything)

I also hate mosquitos/midges - I hope the local insect life will bear that in mind and be respectful of my personal dislikes and body space

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Sorry, that seemed unwelcoming earlier.

We all hope you and your friend have a great time.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge

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My New York friend? Or my new midge friend? I hear I'll be making a few

Seriously, thanks - it's really not big news - but it is a bit daft to get to good ol' middle age and never to have been to Scotland - especially as this board (and GB tennis) has a strong Scottish contingent 

I'll let you know 

PS And I'll try to behave myself - well, I'll try most of the time.....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 24th of August 2024 03:19:18 PM

It's so beautiful up there (though I was born and have always lived in SW or SE England, my mum comes from Aberdeen, so we spent most of our childhood holidays up in NE Scotland with them), which part are you going to?

I hope you brought along plenty of midge repellent, though there's not much that repels them - given how members of my family used to get differentially affected, it seems that either they like the smell of your blood or (hopefully!) they don't, and also the faster you walk, the better.

Thanks, everyone !

I'm a little worried, steven, by the 'the faster you walk, the better' advice ...... I was sitting smugly confident about this 'walking' thingy, safe in the knowledge (I thought) that my friend, bless, whom I've known for ages, had always been a slightly chubby, very 'city' sort, and is five years older than me.

Well, we met up yestereday, briefly, in London - and what do you know? Yes, you've guessed it, the blighter now spends 90 mins every morning working out, looks trim and toned, and yours truly is now up a gum tree.....I'm going to be the tag-along charlie at the end, huffing and puffing

Coup Droit wrote:

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Thanks, everyone !

I'm a little worried, steven, by the 'the faster you walk, the better' advice ...... I was sitting smugly confident about this 'walking' thingy, safe in the knowledge (I thought) that my friend, bless, whom I've known for ages, had always been a slightly chubby, very 'city' sort, and is five years older than me.

Well, we met up yestereday, briefly, in London - and what do you know? Yes, you've guessed it, the blighter now spends 90 mins every morning working out, looks trim and toned, and yours truly is now up a gum tree.....I'm going to be the tag-along charlie at the end, huffing and puffing

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  Brilliant, I'm sure trying to keep up will do you good. Maybe cover yourself in a mosquito net (joking!) or keep away from stagnant water at twilight until you get up to speed!