Posted on 01/14/2021 9:44:50 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
I don't remember it being that bad. We stayed there for a couple of nights once. We went out to dinner and didn't realize that the entire place pretty much shuts down at 9pm so we had to walk back to our hotel several kilometers away. People mostly go there for duty free shopping. You can take a taxi tour for about 50 Euros and they will bring you up to the top of the rock. There is also a cable car but we didn't take any of those tours. We already live on the seafront so we didn't want to pay for a view that wasn't much different than what we already had.
I love Gibraltar...the first time I was there it was too windy for the cable car but the 2nd time I managed to get on one after a long wait in line...
I enjoyed the siege tunnels and the history...and St Michael’s Cave...
Even though its British there are no tea rooms but there are Fish N Chip restaurants...
The last time I was there I caught the noon parade of the British military bagpipe band that marched down the street and stopped at the town hall (or whatever it was)...
It seemed a little big like Edinburgh (though Ive never been there Just Glasgow and Kilmarnock)
Venice Ive never been there just the west coast...
I was supposed do a 10 cruise out of there to Barcelona in Oct and then a TA home to Tampa but the cruises were all cancelled due to the Wu Hu Flu...we had an apartment close to St Mark’s Square for 4 days...before that I was suppose to be in Bari to visit my uncle’s grave...He was killed there in WWII...
I loved Glasgow but then theres great research libraries...the Mitchell library had a lot of info and documentation about my Scottish families...
Maybe the Starbucks on every corner were all closed ???
I liked Glasgow. But I really liked Edinburgh and Inverness more. I’d like to go back and spend more time in just those 2 areas. We took the train from Inverness to Glasgow. That was fun!
I had flown into Glasgow from Newark...
I took the train down to Kilmarnock where a ggf was born and then went from there to Ipswich...
Ive never been to Edinburgh...no family ties I know of...most of mine from way back were from Ayrshire...
My sister has been to Edinburgh a few times her husband’s ancestors were from there...they love it...they talk about the castles...
We just didn’t have enough time. We only did the castle in Edinburgh. There were others along the way I would’ve liked to see but we just didn’t have the time. It’s funny but we did some really out of the way places and spent a lot of time just talking to various people. I ran into an older man in the train station at Inverness who enjoyed telling me his whole family history. It started by him asking me where the library was. lol
He was probably a friend of mine LOL
Actually i do my homework on the libraries long before I leave home and EMail them for info on what I’m looking for and their times and if need be I ‘book’ a seat or room for the day or days I’ll be there...you usually have to book a couple of weeks ahead...I also find out what copying machinery etc they have...Both Glasgow Mitchell Library and the Robbie Burns Library in Kilmarnock staff were very helpful and told me a lot before I went...that way you dont waste all day searching when you get there...
Often the research centers arent open every day or the staff member is not there...especially if they are a volunteer...I make friends by EMail and usually they are nice and give me advice etc...
I got to do FindMyPast for free for 2 days at the Robbie Burns and the copies of the actual documents were about 25 cents. I came away with a thick stack :)
My Kilmarnock ancestor names are Harris (Clan Campbell) Ewart, Crosbie/Crosby Lang/Liang, Millar, back to the mid 1700s...
Did you see the Gibralter monkeys? Nasty little things. :-)
I’ve been to Edinburgh-—attended the Military Tattoo at the castle-——one of the most moving things I have ever seen.
I love Scotland.
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Yes but they were so clean and sweet smelling they looked like they had been dry cleaned that morning LOL
I love Scotland too
Nice. Glad you enjoy it. As far as I know, I have no Scottish ancestry. Irish and English. Hubby is from a border clan....Johnstone. They still have a chief that he’s had contact with. I’ve just always wanted to go to Scotland......so I did.
I have some Irish...from County Down...lovely Irish names like Campbell, Irvine, Hunter and McClimont...LOL My great grandparents left there...
I do have a 6th great grandfather McGinnis, Catholic Irish who came to New York colony in 1720 with his family as an indentured servant from Armagh at about age 15...
He later was a fur trapper up the Mohawk River and married the daughter of a German trading post owner, and died at the Battle of Bloody Pond fighting the French and Indians, Sept 1755...Theres a rock at the end of Lake George with a plaque his name Captain McGinnis on it...
Ive been to Ireland to Belfast and Dublin but Id like to go back and vist Ballyroney in County Down...
For England Ive been several areas where my ancestors were from...Ipswich a few times researching my grandfather’s family and Wednesbury (Birmingham), and Bristol for my Huguenot ancestors where I took a couple of day trips by train into Wiltshire to libraries there for other families...
Ive also been to London a couple of times...
Ireland is on my list of places to go. I’ve never researched my family history. I’ve just never cared about it. England is like last on my list of places I want to go. We could have split our trip when we went to Scotland and I said......nah.
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