The scenery here in North Cyprus is lovely but!

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 09:19

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150314609505408&set=a.134409810407.223780.81027045407



This was taken in Scotland on Wednesday nothing can beat scenery like this.



Chris

jock1



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 09:22

Aye it's braw Chris..

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 09:24

And I will see it on the 24th of this month when I go back for a week or so! Winter woolies out.



Chris

mikelapta



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 09:48

Just planted some runner beans,Chris !!!!

Think I'll have to stay here and water them

Mike

jock1



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 10:06

The highland coo in the pic reminds me of a story, This English aristocrat was up hunting in the highlands and after much hunting he became thirsty, he was cupping his hands drinking from the local burn...when the local farmer saw him and shouted "Diny Drink from there laddie..its aw coo's pee and coo's shit!!, Gane a lang a wee bity and drink further up yon burn" The English aristocrat shouted back " Whats that you saying my good man i am from London speak the Queens English!!

(Local farmer) shouts back " Aye Drink up my good man its pure highland water.......

yenibob


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 10:10

It misses out the billions of bloody midges that ruin the place (sadly)

hattikins


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 10:13

I miss seeing all the beautiful colours of the trees in Autumn, not enough to go back though.

spider


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 10:46

Very beautiful Chris thank you and ya cen me heart belongs ta Musselburgh



Enjoy your visit, safe trip ya will be back all reed we tha cold.





Spider,X

Tenakoutou



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Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 10:56

Sorry, all you porridge-eating, bagpipe-blowing, haggis-hunting Scots - try 'Googling up' a few photo images of South Island, New Zealand - then you'll see 'scenery'!

yenibob


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 11:58

And you couldn't leave there quick enough for this "pseudo desert", says it all really.



A place is a lot more than a few hills with clouds over them!

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 12:05

yenibob/msg 10: 'A place is a lot more than a few hills with clouds over them!'



That's right, 'yenibob' - especially when those clouds cloud the lawlessness and skulduggery that goes on here!

yenibob


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 12:09

Makes your reasoning to come here even more inexplicable. NZ must be bloody awful!



Is it true that Parliament gets heated over Hobbits (and Sheep)?

jock1



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 12:09

.............

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 12:34

Yenobob,



Do you have to be so rude, our reasons for coming here are our business and was only after a lot of research. I still say Scotland is one of the most beautiful places for scenery.



Tenaktou from the photos my cousin sends I would say that NZ was very similar and I believe lots of Scots there as well.



Chris

yenibob


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 12:41

I do not believe I was being rude Chris, just expressing an opinion. Or is that only allowed if it agrees with yours? You should have said



I have been to Scotland many many times (for work) Cold, Wet, unfriendly people, awful food with poor infrastructure and orrid midges.



None of the above is rude, nor is it fact, but it IS MY opinion.



PS, how did they get on in the Rugby yesterday?

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 13:03

Agree about the midges they are a nightmare

swyflot


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 13:19

South Island NZ is fabulous. Our daughter;s house overlooks Otago Bay.Spent 2 weeks travelling round the South Island and I have never before seen such stunning scenery !!

Spent lots of school hols at Grandparent's house in Scottish border region, pretty but incomparable with NZ

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 14:47

yenibob/msg 12: 'Makes your reasoning to come here even more inexplicable. NZ must be bloody awful!'



We only came for 'family reasons'.



I trust this information satiates your illogical curiosity!

harita


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 15:46

yenibob ..

When I was at school doing elementary geography we were led to understand that another country in the world with a climate most like Britain was New Zealand .. Don't know never been ..

We came here to retire in the sun .. Certain better than the UK, even when they have a good day ..

Glasbury


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 16:20

This is where I live and I think the scenery is beautiful - as good as Scotland.



http://filesmelt.com/dl/blackmountains.jpg

girne 29


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 16:43

yenibob.

message 15

Cant imagine why they were unfriendly to you. Was it perhaps your arrogance and rudeness, as depicted in this thread ,in asking people to explain their reasons for moving or leaving certain countries.



Where did you do business in Scotland that was full of midges,do you know where midges are to be found?

Ask for Scottish food, the bulk of it is the same as English food, your comment about porridge is a stupid as me making the same comment about jellied eels.



Scotland has many faults,but most strangers recognise the friendliness encountered ,especially in the cities.

As someone who has worked in London, dont even talk to me about friendliness.Ask a local in Glasgow or Edinburgh and quite a few other European cities, for directions and they will likely show you. Do the same in London and they will look at you as if you were a piece of crap on their shoes, for daring to interrupt their oh so important lives,or are a vagrant, crook or after something.

yenibob


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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 17:01

Girne, I think you must be getting "confused" I quite like porridge. Why are you getting angry? I posted opinion. You don't have to like it (or know who posted what).

Smity



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Posts: 826

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 17:02

Blimey nurseawful only posted a beauitiful Scotish winter photo



Isnt this really what the forum is all about information



Why is it some ADULTS act like kids in a playground

yenibob


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Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
14/11/2010 17:05

Bored I guess, Sorry Sir, Won't happen again Sir!



But to be fair.....We did stay on thread..More or Less anyway So that must be a bonus?

phylray



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Message Posted:
14/11/2010 18:00

harita - yes, I seem to remember being taught that (and the sheep!) My Kiwi friend said the South Island

was more like Scotland. She also had to go abroad to get better paid work, as many of us do, and I met her

teaching in the Gulf. Of Swedish descent, she got on well with us when she came here, and I also went with

her to Egypt and Israel as well as Spain. We know N.Zealand is beautiful, but there were some things she

didn't like about it, but that was her opinion.



Worst midges I experienced were in Istanbul, but I did seem to get immune after 2 years. And I wasn't

working in the countryside either!