Interesting facts - Scotland Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So this is a picture of me at Abbotsford House Castle and this is basically how you ring the bell. It's a great big thing right here you pull on it. This town Ballater is an old railway town and on the front of the shops are emblems of the royals. The shop they chose has honor of their emblem. So the town grew as a 19th century spa town. So here you can see these symbols of their crest and they're above the shops that they buy stuff from. This is a pharmacy chemist and the queen and also Prince Charlie, Charles goes to this and they have these crests above all the shops that they go to.
Video 2 Transcript
So here are some interesting facts that I had in my journal for my trip to Scotland. So crack means fun in Irish, well in Scotland it means the same thing. So you say where's the crack, means where's the fun. Another thing in Northern Picts, P-I-C-S, are Highland Scots and they're considered a fierce group and the Romans and the English did not want to go into the country because of their fierceness. The thistle, the thistle became the country's flower by the Roman Legion was laying an ambush on the Scottish clan. As they snuck through the undergrowth, they got stuck with the thistle thorns. The Scots heard them saying ouch and the Scots heard them getting pricked by the thistles and from that time on the thistles became the Scottish flower because they knew who was coming to their land because they were getting pricked by the thistles.
Video 3 Transcript
So this, the statement, by hook or crook. There was a man named Walliford. He had to, had to withdraw from a battle. So he said, hook meant to the left and crook meant head to the right. So the captain said, we will get there by hook or crook. That's what that came from.
