Whoa. Deep fried pizza.
Never heard of this.
Hey, guys. Welcome back to Girl Gone London Channel.
If you're new here, my name is Kayla.
I'm a dual UK and American citizen,
and today I am telling you why scotland is my favorite place to visit in the UK.
So I do live in England, and there's quite a few places in England
that I would recommend visitors go and that I enjoy going myself.
But if I had to choose between
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, and I have been to them all,
I would say that my favorite always comes out as Scotland.
Now, on the topic of Scotland,
before I jump into the video, I just wanted to let you know that I have
about four spaces left available on a really amazing adventure
in the Scottish Highlands that I'm running from September 4 to September 10 of 2022.
This year, I'll put a link to the full.
Itinerary in the description below, so you can check it out.
But it's going to be a total of 16 people, including myself and my husband,
and we're going to be starting in Edinburgh, heading up to Inverness,
the Isle of sky, finishing back down towards Oban
and heading back to Edinburgh to finish off the trip.
Along the way, we'll take a distillery tour, see castle ruins,
take a ride on the Jacobite Steam train for some amazing scenery,
see the Highland cattle, and even follow along the shores of Loch Ness.
The price per person, which I'll put up on the screen now
includes all accommodation for six nights, all transportation for seven days,
including the ferry to the Isle of sky, the Jacobite Steam train,
and a very comfortable coach that we'll be traveling in.
It includes all breakfast,
two group dinners, the expert driver slashtour guide
in addition to me, who I will be also on the tour.
But we will also have an expert expert on Scotland entrance to Edinburgh Castle
and Edinburgh walking tour, a distillery tour, and tasting,
as well as the Armidale Castle and Gardens entry on the Isle of Skye.
We've currently got a good mix of solo
travelers and couples and people who are traveling as a pair of friends.
It's really open to all ages and to any nationality.
So whether you're a Brit who wants
to explore more in your own backyard, whether you're an American who wants
to explore more of the UK that you wouldn't get to on your own,
wherever you're from in the world, you are invited.
And like I said, my husband and I will be on this tour, so you'll be traveling
with us and two of us, plus 14 people from around the world.
Like I said, I do have around four spaces left.
The deadline to decide if you're coming is going to be relatively soon,
because the accommodation in the Scottish Highlands is booking up again.
It's beautiful. There's a pent up demand for travel.
September is going to be an amazing month to be there.
So if you do want more information,
want to sign up, are interested, and want to learn more,
want to chat about it, definitely make sure to leave a comment below.
I will make sure to check all the comments
on this video to make sure I don't miss anybody.
Alternatively, and probably easier for you
and for me is to email Girl Gone London@gmail.com,
so you can email me directly if this is something that you're interested in.
Like I said, we would love to have you,
no matter who you are, no matter where you're from,
no matter whether you're a solo traveler traveling with someone else or there's
a group of you, I will have a waitlist as well.
So definitely get in touch if this sounds exciting to you and onto the video.
Okay, so I'm in a list of the five main
things I love about Scotland, because every time I go to Scotland,
I have an amazing time, and I always look forward to going.
I have never been to Scotland and not had
an amazing time, and I think it's down to these five reasons.
I know Scottish people.
There are a lot more than five reasons to love Scotland, but these are my reasons.
The first one friendly people.
So I have noticed that in general, the Scottish tend to be much more outgoing
than their English counterparts, particularly in the south.
So in the north of England, it is more of an outgoing culture.
But where I'm from, I guess I'm not from here,
but where I live is going to be a little bit more subdued and less outgoing.
When I go to Scotland from here, I always feel like I'm around people
with a more American sensibility of outgoingness, if that's a word.
People in Scotland have just consistently been so welcoming, so friendly,
so ready to talk, to get to know you, even if you're strangers.
And I just really feel that the culture
in Scotland and how they relate to each other is definitely more similar to how
I'm used to in the States and that level of being outgoing and warm and welcoming.
So that is always really nice.
When I go there, I know I start up conversations with
random people, and it's always kind of met with an equal
enthusiasm to talk, and that's really nice.
So number one, friendly people is one of my favorite things about Scotland.
Number two, the scenery.
Scotland is. I mean.
It might be the most beautiful place in the world.
Whether you're driving through it or when
we're just staying there or you're next to a lock.
Which is a lake or a mountain or just driving down the road.
It all just looks. For the most part.
Particularly in the more rural areas in the Highlands and outside of the cities.
It just looks like a postcard.
Now, I spent a lot of time in Percher near a town called Creek, if you're familiar.
So I'll insert some pictures here of that area.
That's the first area that I fell in love
with in Scotland, but also nearby are the trussex.
And we went there a couple of years ago
for the very first time and explored things like Lock Katrina,
which I gently if I could buy a house on Lock Katrina right now and sell
my house in southeast England, I would absolutely do it so beautiful.
And it only increases the further north you go.
You've got the aisles where you can look
these pictures that were taken in the summer months,
and it genuinely looks like you're standing on a Caribbean beach.
But it's in Scotland.
Just the mass amount of beautiful natural scenery in Scotland.
I fully believe it's probably the most
beautiful place in the UK and one of the most beautiful places in the world.
The third reason I love Scotland is deep fried pizza.
So I had never tried deep fried pizza
and I didn't realize it was a thing until we went to a fish and chip shop when
we were in Persia one time and we ordered fish and chips.
But then I saw pizza on the menu and I'm a big pizza fan.
So I was looking at the options and it was saying.
Like. Battered pizza or deep fried pizza.
So I was like, Whoa, deep fried pizza.
Never heard of this.
So I started talking with the guy running the shop and he's showing me how they're
taking these basically miniature individual pizzas and either just deep
frying them or battering them and then deep frying them.
Oh, my God.
Obviously, I had to try one because when
in Scotland and also, I love deep fried things because I'm American.
And pizza, it was amazing.
I have not found a deep fried pizza in a fish and chips place down in England.
Maybe they're closer.
I don't know where the cut off is of where the stops being a cultural thing,
but I would highly recommend anybody who's ever in Scotland.
They also do, like,
deep fried Mars bars and other deep fried things because they're amazing.
But deep fried pizza so good.
It's the joy of pizza times ten.
You won't regret it.
So that's third on my list.
Deep fried pizza in Scotland is heaven.
Now, the fourth reason I love Scotland and something that I didn't know existed
until I visited Scotland for the first time, is something called kaylee dancing.
Now, if you had written down the word kailey and then asked me to say it,
I certainly wouldn't be pronouncing it correctly like I am now,
because it doesn't look like kaylee, but that is how it's spelled.
And it's basically a social dance with Gaelic folk music and different
patterns of dance that they teach the people there to kind of all do together.
So if you're American, think of it like a barn dance.
So you've got somebody who's a collar
and they're going to be basically teaching everybody these dance moves and they're
not necessarily like you're on your own boogieing.
It's like a group dance or paired up.
So the caller teaches you the different
dances that you do, the different steps for every song.
Everybody does it together.
Often people mess up and it's funny, sometimes you'll have more professional
people who actually know the dances and it's really fun to watch them.
But this is a really popular thing to do, like at a Scottish wedding often maybe
at a leisure resort or a Scottish hotel or something that might be the entertainment
on the weekend or in the evenings would be a kaylee dance.
It's really fun.
You don't have to know how to dance.
I certainly can't dance, but as long as you just follow
the instructions and work with your partners, and half the time you find
yourself just like, holding hands, running around in circles, it's really fun.
And it's definitely something cultural that I love about Scotland and I really
look forward to doing when we head up that way.
So the fifth thing I love about Scotland is there is a Scottish pride that more
closely resembles what I'm used to in an American sense of patriotism.
And I'm not comparing the Scottish
and the Americans in any way, but saying having a pride in your country and where
you're from is definitely prevalent in Scotland.
Culturally,
Scottish people love that they're Scottish, they want to share things
with you about Scotland, they want to tell you why they're proud to be Scottish.
And there's a national pride that doesn't
exist in England, it doesn't exist in the same way, that's a whole different video.
And to me, I really enjoy that.
I think it's completely fine and appropriate to be proud of your
country, to have pride in who you are and your history and what you have to offer.
And so you'll see a lot of, like,
Scottish flags and just people in general who are very proud to be Scottish.
I find it's a very positive atmosphere.
And because people are so proud to be
Scottish, like I said, they're really willing to teach you
and to tell you stories and to help you get to know the country.
I've even noticed this with my Scottish viewers here on YouTube and in my patreon.
You Scots just really love to share about Scotland and all the reasons why.
It's wonderful.
And I think that that is a really great thing about Scotland.
Now, I did write a bonus down,
so number six, the bonus reasons why I love Scotland, the Scottish accent.
Now, depending on where you are in Scotland, I might have no idea what
you're saying, particularly Glaswegian accent can go straight over my head.
But in general, the Scottish accent, I mean, who doesn't love a Scottish accent?
A lot of the Scottish accents will feel
very singsongy, fun, friendly, warm, fun to try and imitate fun to listen to.
The Scottish accent is just a really
pleasant one to my ears, so I'll go ahead and do that as my bonus.
The Scottish accent.
Now, I know there are many more reasons to love Scotland, so comment below.
Let me know your reasons why you love Scotland or why you'd like to go again.
If you would like to join us or thinking
about joining us and want more information on the Scottish Highlands tour
from September 4 to September 10, make sure to email me or comment below.
My email is girlgonelondoncom@gmail.com and comment below.
I will make sure to go through all these comments to make sure you're not missed,
but we would absolutely love to have you, no matter who you are.
It's really going to be the adventure
of a lifetime for a lot of people and definitely want to make sure
that my YouTube audience has a chance to get in on this as well.
Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you next time.
Bye.