Trip to Scotland 1983: Four and half months in the Highlands and Islands

[Jock Scot]

Well, sort of! But also, no. Part of the reason I wanted to stay out there was to see what living in Scotland was like in reality. Not the "Tartan Twilight Tourist Tat" world.---------------------

In my long experience of the Scottish Highlands and admittedly shorter but fairly extensive visits to the Hebrides the two places do not compare in almost every way. In my experience there are great, marked and profound differences of every day life -----------particularly on Sundays-------between the mainland of Highland Scotland and the Hebrides. In passing, Orkney and Shetland have their differences (in human outlook) too but, nowhere near as much as the Hebrides.