Visiting The Scottish Island That Has Everything | Isle of Arran
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Scotland is home to over 700 islands and this time I’ll be spending a few days on The Isle of Arran, an island often described as Scotland in miniature as it’s a Scottish island that has everything from Highland and Island scenery with peaks and deep glens to rolling hill and lush farmlands to the south.
Arran is one of Scotland’s more accessible islands as Ardrossan where you catch the Isle of Arran ferry is located only around 50-minutes from Glasgow or a 2-hour drive from the English border. I start my journey by catching the Ardrossan ferry to Brodick on the The Isle of Arran.
During my time on the island of Arran in Scotland, I visit Glenashdale Falls, The King’s Cave, Lagg and Arran Whisky Distilleries, Machrie Moor, Goatfell and the stunning Glen Rosa.
I hope this video is a helpful Isle of Arran travel guide and inspires you on things to do and see on Arran.
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If we haven't met before... Hi, I'm Ruth 👋 and I recently bought a campervan to travel my home country of Scotland after living overseas for 12 years. I’ve hardly seen anything or been anywhere in Scotland and now is the time to change that!
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Why nobody has head hunted you as a presenter professionally is beyond me, an absolute natural. Enjoyed so much, Thankyou.
That’s so nice of you to say, thank you!
I reckon Ruth is happier being her own boss having her own link on YT and earning more money than being a TV presenter. What say you Mr Parkinson?
I hope so monsieur cannon, but she is professional, Ruth is a breathe of freah air regarding the standards Ruth goes too. Ruth cud present anything. Wot she chooses 2 do is Ruth's decision.
That's what I said Mr Parkinson!@@steveparkinson8887
@@martincannon1078more money than being a TV presenter? Not true. Maybe if she had 5 million subscribers (which I think she should have).
As a Scotsman, and naturally a raging alcoholic, this is my favourite whisky channel masquerading as a travel channel on RUclips. Thanks Ruth.
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you for watching 😄🍻
I agree. The wonderful hiking trails, drone shots and stunning scenery are fabulous. On the other hand, the distillery visits are the highlight of your channel for me. More whisky recommendations please!
Gosh, I am an American raging alcoholic and ditto.
lol !!
I thoroughly concur
I learned about the Highland Clearances in primary school.
I home educate my own kids now and taught them all about the clearances. Scottish history is a passion of mine and our kids need to know what made us who we are.
Exactly 👍
The clearances are a shameful chapter in Scottish history, not unlike the potato famine in Ireland that happened around the same time. This period in history is not covered extensively in schools. It was ethnic cleansing and conducted in a brutal way. Whole communities wiped out together with their local culture and language.
A short story Ruth: 41 year ago i was on Kintyre to spent my holyday in Carradale. Offcourse i had to go to the local pub every evening😊, so i met a guy from Arran. He allways crossed the bay over to the same pub in Carradale with his own boat. He told me, if i would i could came to to fisit Arran and he lend me and my wife his car. So i could drive the day around the island, witch we did. After i brought the car back to his place, i asket him what the costs where, or what i goold do in return, and he didn’t let me pay for anything not even the boat crissings. That… Ruth was amazing for me, and i will never forget that wonderful experience. So this film of Arran is bringing so many memories… and still thinking how lucky we where. And next i will watch your film of Kintyre ofcourse. Thank you so much for the plessure i had on this film❤
That sounds like an amazing experience you had, what a nice memory!
Boots for the high road and boots for the low road. - Greetings from Canada
Thanks for watching from Canada!
Wonderful adventure. I agree, Ruth has a magic about her; keeps me smiling. Thank you, Ruth.
Thank you 😊
A wonderful video !!! Living in the USA, I know I will never be able to go to Scotland, so it is amazing to watch your videos. You have a beautiful narrating voice.
Thank you Mark! Glad you are enjoying the videos!
It’s not that far, not as if it’s across the Atlantic or anything….er hang on
Why wouldn’t you be able to go to Scotland?
@frednorman1 Money would be the main reason. I've had 5 knee surgeries, 3 level spinal fusion in my neck, a heart attack, herniated disc in my lower back. I am retired now.
Your country is full of natural beauty. The tourism board should help fund your expeditions. You are a terrific ambassador ❤
It would be nice to work with Visit Scotland sometime! 🤞
@@ruthaislingSee if they are looking to hire.
husband speaking age 81 - an excellent story of Arran and many beautiful scenic views. I usually do not look at other viewers comments more than 3 or 4
as I really don't care unless the story is very interesting and I would like to see others comments. Many comments on how well you speak and it is like you pronounce
each word so precise. Doing a long dialog by yourself is not an easy task since you don't want to keep pausing while you think of what to say next. It was 2 pm on Sunday
May 26th and raining again in Wash. State U.S. when I started your story. A very nice way to pass a dreary day. Thank you for your adventure made just for us.
Thanks for watching from America!
I'm watching from the USA also. Just west of Boston.
I know about the Highland clearances because I used to be a genealogist, specialising in Scottish family history - and have strong Scottish roots myself. One of my 2nd cousins lives on Arran. She moved there from England a few years ago. A fab video - thank you. ❤
Thank you 😊
@@ruthaisling you're welcome. 😺
A most charming tour guide you are, whetting our appetite for a visit to your land. Thank you.
Hope you have a great visit to Scotland when you do visit!
We learned nothing about Scottish history in school. The curriculum was all about the Industrial Revolution and romans. It was not until I left school that I started to find out about my Scottish history. It was quite shocking to see what had happened to the people of Scotland. Great to find out more ❤️
I love you tube because real people make their own real content. This lady is going to go off - unrestricted and on her own terms. best of luck - enjoy the content
Thank you 😊🙏
The standing stones were the neon signs of their day! Basically advertising booze made and sold here.
When we were there last year we saw Otters every day. We were camping at a site called Seal Shores - on pitches really close to the beach. We watched a Mother Otter teaching her pup how to hunt - it was fantastic. A couple of miles or so walk along the beach and we found a Seal Haulout area. It was really amazing to see the seals individually balanced on top of the rocks. They almost looked like half moons as their bodies were arched on the rocks.
Wow that sounds amazing! So nice you saw otters!
The Isle of Arran is my favourite place in all of the UK. I first went there in July 1985, and camped for 2 weeks. I spent most of my time around Lochranza because there are so many beautiful walks from there. I found your video to be a bit of a rush job. You ned to stay in a place for a period of time to see more than just the main Tourist spots. You even completely passed by Backwaterfoot on the west coast. You also didn't climb up to see the mountain Loch. I stayed in a rented cottage in early April of 1986, not far from Brodick, which was perfect for walks up the Glen. Lochranza again in 1986 after being disappointed with The Isle of Islay. And in 1987, I actually went to Arran to look for a house to buy near Lamlash. Lamlash is also worth staying for at least 1 week. I stayed about 10 days. Of course in the 1980's, there was no Internet or mobile phones, so I used the old ( real ) style Ordnance Survey Map of Arran. All in all, although I think you make good travel videos, this one was a BIG disappointment. You need to spend more time in the bigger islands..
That’s it. I can’t take it anymore. I officially love you !
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How cute 😅😅😅
Back off buddy , Ruth belongs to all of us 😁
Thank you Ruth - I've only just come across your videos. Wonderful, you are very, very good at getting across the aspects that matter on your adventures. At 75 you've given me a push to get on and do my own exploring. Thank you and take care.
Finally arrive in your beautiful country. Third trip , my son and I picked up our camper van in Aberdeen and are headed up the east coast to Orkney. Thanks for your videos
Wow! I hope you have a great time there 😊
How have you found using a camper van to get around, and is there enough room in it for both of you to sleep comfortably? I'd like to visit with my family (3 of us) and Ruth's sold me on the campervan!
@@sandhyapapineau4008 for the two of us so far it’s fine. We are spending one night in Orkney in a Band B. But all in all it’s fine. Getting used to some the smaller roads in Scotland and Orkney. That I got used to pretty quickly
Wow I am so glad I found this channel. I find it hard to express how wonderful and educational this is for a Canadian who had no idea Scotland has so many wonderful islands. So many fascinating places to visit. I am very ill with end stage pulmonary fibrosis and your videos are a highlight of my day. I am so glad you are travelling enjoying life and staying safe. I wonder if you ever thought of taking a wee puppy along with you. Take care Dr. Holly from Ladysmith
I’m so pleased you’re able to enjoy Scotland through my videos 🏴 Please keep watching!
I am always inspired to watch Ruth's Adventures because it should called Ruth's Ruthless Adventures with all the uncertain obstacles you have encountered to bring us content.
Haha maybe I should change the channel name! 😂
I will not be visiting Arran until they have sorted out the ferry issues . They have the regular ferry MV Caledonian Isles ferry in dry dock that will not return to service till the Autumn, due to a rotten hull . They need to replace a lot of steel on the hull of the vessel . You where correct, you boarded the MV Isle of Arran a 40 your old vessel that has been used on the Islay route. A much smaller ferry than the normal ferry.
They should have a new vessel in service on this ferry route later in the year , known as the Glen Sannox , but I will believe it when I see it in service. Too many delays and false hopes with that new ferry. Another great video from you, thanks.
Hopefully it will be in service soon! 🤞
Hi Ruth, Arran looks like a great place, my brother and his wife go there often, another youtuber, Eddie Burns did the glen rosa hike. I really must get over there myself, I'm not a whisky drinker but the sausage rolls look good.
I’ve just found your channel and am addicted! What a great teacher and videographer. You describe the areas beautifully! Thank you from the 🇺🇸!
Welcome aboard and hope you enjoy the videos!
Hi Ruth, as always, a pleasure to watch your travels.Great scenery, superbly shot, think you would put the BBC to shame with your professional footage.Thanks for sharing.Neil.x😊
Spot on! I'm so glad I was offered one of her videos by RUclips. Subscribed straight away. 🙂
Thanks so much Neil!
Definitely didn’t ever learn about the highland clearances in school as we are taught English history, not our own
Yes agree, probably reason I gave up history and stuck to geography.
Many many years ago, I was lucky enough to visit Arran, from Bute and the method of travel to get there was on The Waverly, a fantastic experience to say the least. Fantastic video btw.
Thanks for sharing your story, sounds like a fun experience! ❤
Isn't the Waverly a paddle steamer ship?? You are extremely lucky to have had that experience.
Lived for 6 years in North Ayrshire and enjoyed many a visit to Arran. Fun to see you highlight this gorgeous island.
It’s a lovely place! 😍
So glad to see this Video, I am planning a trip to Arran next week, 🏴. I had a student trip in October 95, the distillery had just opened and I can’t wait to have a return visit. Only problem I don’t drink anymore. 😀
Amazing! I hope you have a brilliant trip there!
Just to add, I went the Lochranza in the north of the island
Scarps are Italian. I use mine intone winter and have Merrill’s for summer.
Thank you from a South African. Three of my grandparents were Scottish. I actually have a picture from the Isle of Arran, taken in 1913. My great-grandparents would go there for their annual holidays. I believe it was a haven of happy memories. Many of the young men who would wait for an invitation to join would have been killed in WW1.
Wow that’s so lovely! I love looking at photos of my family from those days too!
I'm sure that we learned of the Highland clearances at school (England ! ) My Granddad was from there .
Thank you so much for another great episode. Safe travels.
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos Ruth plus you love Japan my youngest daughter is obsessed with Japan she speaks at bit too thank you for sharing your fab videos ❤️
That's awesome!
Enjoyable and informative video, as always. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm and adventures Ruth. 😊
Thanks Dan! Glad you enjoyed the video! ❤️
Hi Ruth. Sent you a recent email via your website. 👍🏻
Excellent. I'm going on my 57th visit to the island next month with an American friend. An idea for another video would be Glen Clova, Glen Doll. Not so very well known area, Loch Brandy is nearby, some amazing cliffs in the area.
In answer to your question Ruth, no, we were not taught anything about the clearances when I was at school in the 1950s. At the time there was a deliberate policy from Westminster of not teaching Scottish pupils of anything that might be considered anti-English, including much of Scotland's history and the Gaelic language. We learned nothing about Bruce or Bannockburn but plenty about Alfred burning his cakes and Harold getting an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings, nothing about the covenanters or the corruption that led to the Scottish Parliament passing the Act of Union in 1707
Your so right I was in school in the 60s never taught any Scottish history not even rabbie burns it was deliberate not to teach Scottish history
We learned a lot of Scottish history at school in Stirlingshire in the sixties. Our school was actually on the field of Bannockburn and our history teacher told us about the battle as if it were taking place right in front of us. I’m always sad that other school pupils didn’t have the same experience.
@@rosemarymee I was taught Scottish history either it was wrong not teaching own history
@@albertreynolds9287 Do you mean you “weren’t “ taught Scottish or you were?
@@rosemarymee yes I wasn't taught Scots history lol typing error
Reading the comments below, they say it all and the only comment I could add is to; keep up the good work young lady! Brilliant stuff.
Thank you!
Done Arran at least six times in the car and by motorbike. Saw most of what is in this episode, it's a great wee island and so accessible for me. One day while sitting on a rock admiring the coastline. An otter came ashore making it's way towards me, unaware of my presence. At the same moment a car stopped sharply on the road nearby, out jumped a woman shouting otter!!!. Never saw the creature again....😮
Ahhhh no at least you got to see it briefly!
Thanks Ruth that's brilliant. Take care. Tom.
Thanks for watching, Tom!
I grew up watching the sun set over Arran.
Beautiful! 😍
A very interesting video from the Scottish Highlands.
Love your blogs. You bring back so many memories of my rough camping days in the Highlands with my lovely Sheltie. Later i did many diving trips and live aboard trips on both West and East coasts. Now i live in Thailand, so i miss the the Highlands and Islands. Your distillery visits are a bonus. Single Malts are wonderful. The diversity of flavours is amazing. Very limited choice of malts in Thailand,and they are heavily taxed. Still i have my memories and your videos.
So glad you are enjoying them! Where in Thailand do you live? I've spent a lot of time there over the years.
Inland from Pattaya. Nice countryside to walk my 8 dogs every day. Away from the resort madness. Been here 18 years.
Just discovered your channel, Ruth, super cool to see your Scotland from my home in California and I really appreciate you listing what items cost in American dollars too, look forward to more of your episodes
Your a pro. Always like the scottish accent. Your video's makes me relax
😊 thank you
I love your Whiskey Storage Cabinet idea...maybe I'll start my own collection too. Thanks for a great vid, as usual.
Thank you 🙏
I am loving your videos! AMAZING! You deserve all the best things in the world. Robert the Bruce is in my ancestry lineage so that was really cool to see the cave. I just found your channel this morning and have been binge watching all your videos!
Spectacular! Another addition to my bucket list. And the dogs were friendly😂
Thank you! Haha they were friendly! phew!
I love this channel you are such a sweet person your videos are amazing and also like myself you are Scottish enjoying watching all your videos working my way through them.
Cool whiskey "glove box" in the van. I have to get another van. They are the so "go anywhere anytime vehicle."
Yeah they are great. I use mine as my main vehicle too.
Ruth your vlogs are a right breath of fresh air, tell me something Ruth, whats the situation with midges, so saw this dude at Loch Ness and he said there was many there. Juhaptergee
Keep up the good work ruthy hope everything goes to plan some idea venture which I could be there always a😊😊😊😊😊 next time mark xxxx
Ruth, I think the amount of editing contained in your videos is exceptional and I for one am extremely grateful for taking us along to all these wonderful places. Well done from my Narrowboat lurking somewhere quiet on the English canals. 😊
Wow, thank you for the kind comments. Enjoy your narrowboat trip!
I'm Australian ,and we learnt about the clearances in our history classes .
That’s interesting to know, thanks for sharing!
Hi Ruth, Started watching your videos some months ago and agree with most people who say they are first class, so Informative and well made, a joy to watch. Arran is one of my favourite places to visit, especially as I only live in Greenock which an hour from the ferry terminal in Ardrossan.
Thank you so much! You’re lucky to be living near Arran. I had such a great time there 👍
I've visted Scotland 20 years ago drove around it and I went to kintyre very beautiful. I'm from southern NewZealand the scottish part of NZ and I learned about the clearences. My grandmother is from clan Graham
Can confirm that the view from the top of Goatfell in good weather is stunning - my first time was also in heavy clag so I came back a couple of years after - managed the round trip from Brodick (on foot the whole way) in about 3.5 hours or so... but I was a LOT younger then :)
Agree. Our club climbed it two or maybe three years , coming down by the back of Brodick castle. The huge rounded boulders at the top are stunning. I got a beauty of a picture from the top that the Herald used so I was dead chuffed! I lost my expensive DJI gimbal-mounted camera along the sandy seashore as we walked back to Brodick. Sweated how I was going to break it to my wife who bought me it: then another hiker presented it to me as we waited for the ferry!
I’ll need to plan another trip sometime so I can see the view for myself! 😍
If you’re using google maps you can download an area for offline usage
Good to know, thank you!
@@ruthaisling I’m loving seeing Scotland from a camper van. My work takes me to lots of the islands you have been and it’s awesome. I turn on the street view layer on maps and it essentially shows you all the minor roads that you may miss. Most of the dead end roads go to beautiful spots!
You are so very good at this. I am a New Englander with roots in Scotland and using your tours to accompany my books for self study. thank you so much.
I’m glad the videos are helpful!
Another great video Ruth. I am going to plan a trip to Arran in my VW T6 campervan after watching this. Think I am going to buy a new Canon camera to document my campervan trips. Thank you for these brilliant videos...regards Jim
Ruth is fab at detailed info.🏴☮️🙏
Thank you so much! ❤️
Oh WOW Ruth this was such an amazing trip that brings back many memories as well. Thank you for sharing your accomplishment of climbing Goats Fell. My son traveled from Michigan to do the same in 2019. I remember visiting Arran as a 10 year old girl meeting cousins for the first time in Ardrossan (we stayed at their home) and while on the ferry a submarine came up beside us. The whole boat was in awe! Later, I found out they did drills in that area of the sea? from a relative there. I was hoping to get over to honor my 60th birthday this year (and 50 years since being in Scotland) but I keep having home repairs that are eating my funds. Now, I can visit through you!
It sounds like you have great memories from there! I hope you can visit again sometime soon! 🤞
Thank you for taking us to the island i love to hear all about the history when i was working on my friends house in Spain they had a cave house just right on a very hot day but i did enjoy seeing the kings cave thank you ❤👍👍take care drive safe
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 😊
So impressed by all your videos Ruth. Last year I visited Fingels Cave, Mull ( and large sea cave!)+ Skye for a week of waterfalls walks + Iona. Arran looks well worth a visit thanks for your tour!😊
I hope you manage to visit Arran!
I hope so too... depending on when next I visit from my home in Sydney, Australia!
My favorite scotch is Lochranza Reserve, I am definitely putting this on my list of islands my daughter and I are going to visit.
A most charming tour guide you are. Your appetite for a visit to your land Scotland. Awesome ruth 👍 🏴
Thank you! ❤️
Hello Ruth thanks again for another great video 🎉😊
Thanks for watching!
Our Diving Club was diving around the islands in Scotland on a week's trip, we stopped at Brodick Harbour for the night tied the boat up and went ashore. Later on my mate and I were walking near the harbour, in the closed shops there were loads of youths hanging about with nothing to do but mill about and cause trouble, I have never felt so unsafe as that night, was I glad to be back on our boat.🤨
Sorry to hear that!
Another must is to visit on the island of Arran is ARRAN Sense of Scotland, once known as Arran Aromatics. Shop smells devine, wide range of luxury soap, shower gels, hand wash, lotions, diffusers, gift sets... made in Scotland. My favourite scent is After the Rain. Thank you Ruth loved this video. 😀❤❤
I did visit but didn’t end up including the footage as it wasn’t great! Such lovely smelling hand creams! 😍
Brodick castle garden is so cool.
I didn't go to school in Scotland but I learned of the Highland Clearances as part of a British history class back in the 70s. In elementary school, we learned of the legend of Robert the Bruce and the spider, it was a morality lesson for us. I would be surprised if kids are taught any Scottish or British history today. Thanks for the great video.
Thanks for sharing!
Some of the best travel videos I've ever seen. Nothing fake, feels like I'm there!
That means a lot! Thank you so much! ❤
Greetings, A wonderfully informative presentation thank you, during the late 60s Arran hosted rock events usually around the September long week-end break featuring bands like Thin Lizzy, Slade etc, I drove for a band called Stumble with Midge Ure ( Vienna) we supported these bands during the festival. Arran is a must visit island and as I live nearby I visit often, all the best .
I'd appreciate interviews with one or two of the locals on some of these islands. It'd be interesting to hear how they came to live there, occupation, etc.
Thanks for the feedback. I have tried to do this sometimes but I’ve found it quite tricky to find people to agree to be on camera… especially as there will be a large number of people who likely watch the video.
@@ruthaisling That kind of exposure is just what people in tourism businesses crave. And as a former journalist I can assure you that it is commonplace to pay for interviews as well.
Ruth, thank you so much for publishing prices in American dollars as well. I know that they are just estimates, but it is so helpful to us over here. I have "liked" about 3 or 4 of your presentations so far, and just hit the subscribe button today. I am also ordering a Fair Island Sweater because of you. Your filming style has a way of making us feel that we are right there with you. To us, you sure do talk funny though. ...(Just kidding!!! If you don't know already, Americans LOVE your accent. It's so warm and friendly.) Great job!
Thanks so much William and glad to hear the USD conversions are helpful!
One of my Favourite Places to Wild Camp, Across from the Holy Isle and as Beautiful as Lamlash Bay is During the Day it becomes Magical at Night, Photographed the Moon many times above the Holy Isle, was there when a Blood Moon Happened and the best Description i can Give of what i witnessed was that of a Red Shiny Bobble on a Christmass Tree, Loving the Channel Ruth.
Wow that sounds amazing!
Took my bicycle across and wild camped on the coastal path at Falling Rocks, Sannox direction about 8 years ago. It was blissful. A little fire on the pebbly shore for comfort as I watched the lights twinkle on the mainland. Bats flew about, oystercatchers called in the morning and even an otter swam along the shoreline. One of the fallen rocks was my table 🙂
Arran is such a great island to visit. It's big enough to have a lot to see yet small enough to mean short drives between sites. The people are very welcoming and the ferry guys will do their best to get you sorted if they can. We were there last year and will be again this summer.
It’s a lovely place! ❤️
Many thanks for the visit to Arran. One tip: you can make a Google doc available off-line by locating it in Google Drive and checking under the 3 dot menu. It works for any file you have in Drive.
Loved this! And I loved it because it's where I should be now if it wasn't for my problematic motorhome! Great video. Thank you.
Oh no! I hope your motorhome will be fixed soon!
Hi from Australia! Thank you for your tour of the Isle of Arran - most interesting and enjoyable. My parents brought us to Australia in 1961, when I was 13. We lived in Edinburgh, and I have very vague memories of a holiday on Arran when I was about 3 or 4 or 5 years old. We stayed at Whiting Bay and went on a walk and got lost - has to make our way though some marshy land, as I recall, with mum carrying my baby sister! I have no recollection of being taught about the clearances in primary school in Edinburgh.
I've just started watching these and I'm hooked already Ruth, loving it.
p.s. Seeing as it's Friday,you just reminded me I need to stock up on a guid Malt Whisky... Slainte nhath. 👌
Part of the problem with potholes is when they are "fixed" they just dump the material in and compact it but leave the underlying issue so when they come back it's often with an even bigger hole. Traffic is also much heavier and higher volume than it used to be so with satnavs telling drivers to use the wee roads to avoid traffic the amount of upkeep and repair work is spread even further.
That's an interesting point about satnav--never thought of that! (Why does technology always seem to have these unintended downsides??)
@@lizzy-wx4rx I've had someone knock my door and refuse to believe I live there because their stanav told them they'd arrived at the house they'd used the postcode for not realising that the further out of towns you go the bigger the area it covers.
Technology should be used as a tool or aid rather than the sole source. My cars built in satnav is muted and only rarely used for directions, its a map.
Interesting, thank you for sharing this information!
Thank you for this! My mum is from Lochranza and we got to go back to visit several years ago. I've been absolutely craving that Arran blue cheese for years now. Thank you for showing all the places I didn't get to see, I did hike Goatfell and can confirm then views are sublime!
I have noticed you really enjoy eating, I love that. I am half Irish and half Italian so food is a big part of my life, I love to cook.
Yes I love trying different foods when I’m out and about. 😋
I went to Secondary school in Ayr in the 80s and we weren’t taught about the island clearances
I was in secondary in the 60s and I don't recall much Scottish history at all. Pitt and Corn Laws and maybe French Revolution. Hated history about as much as physics. 🙂 Maybe it was me...
@@TerryMcGearyScotland Perhaps it was my particular school in former Dunbartonshire then Strathclyde. History really came to life for me aged 13, we learned about social history and how real people lived, it was fascinating and taught by inspirational teachers who really knew their stuff. I guess I was very very lucky.
That was brilliant. Just our luck I guess.🙏✌🏻
I think it's probably the same in Scotland as in the US, a student learns depending on the teacher. I had some history teachers that taught absolutely nothing and some that truly taught history. I had a history teacher in high school that had his Doctorate and was a former Vietnam War Green Beret and he taught us what was not in the history books.
Yes, I guess it depends on the teacher!
Bute is pretty nice too - only a short distance from Arran.
Thanks, I need to go there!
My favourite place on the planet...many happy childhood memories...thank you Ruth, you have made me a happy man...i love you ...
Glad you enjoyed the video so much!
I,ll probably never get to visit these islands so these videos are very interesting 🤔 👌
Thank you 😊
My grandfather and his forbears lived on Arran in Lamlash. His father had a bicycle shop on the main road across from the shore. It is now a B&B. He moved to Portsmouth during WWI to become a riveter on the warships being built there. I visited the Isle back in 2004...Unfortunately the B&B was fully booked so I couldn't stay in the ancestral house! I decided that one day I will move back to Arran from the US when my time is up! It is heaven on Earth.
Wow what a lovely story and thanks for sharing. I hope you can visit the BnB next time!
Fabulous videos babes there is a few well equipped van's on the market Had a look yesterday Bobilagenten AS
Many of the people ended up on Cape Breton Isle. It’s very Scottish. I love the oat cakes there.
When I visited Scotland in my wee motorhome I was told to get an EE SIM as every other network was so patchy. EE was pretty good everywhere. When I got back I switched from O2 to EE permanently.
I worked on Arran, the best network was EE but even with that there wasn’t the best signal. It really is a lovely island.
Great to know, might look at switching but Vodafone is a good deal 😂
Fantastic wee video Ruth!
The first time I was in Arran ,I was 21, in 1989.
The next time I went was 2012 with a friend and we walked most of it; we went up to the old farm with the standing stones, and camped overnight there.
Loved this video you were all the places I have seen, and brought some great memories back.
You're a breath of fresh air Ruth, and am now hooked.
I now live in the Scottish borders, which is also beautiful, but do miss the west coast as
i'm originally from Glasgow; though I stayed in Kilmarnock for many years.
Anyway keep up the great work young lady ; loving your videos.
God bless!
Thank you so much 😊 I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos!
Very impressive young woman & wonderful tour guide. No words wasted with cliches or BS, just information & delivered with a lovely voice. A fantastic walking companion.
Wow, thank you Mick!
Hi Ruth. Wonderful video of your Arran visit. We visited in 2019 and loved it. My wife Janice descends from Arran emigrants (Hamilton, Kennedy) who went to New Brunswick in the 1830s, so we visited many of the same places you highlighted in your video. Thank you for allowing us to visit again virtually!
Glad the video reminded you of your lovely visit in Arran! 😊
Excellent video again about "Scotland in miniature"👌
Many thanks! It’s a beautiful island 😍
You have such a nice personality…. Please never change.
I loved the Arran hikes. I sensed you were a little tentative meeting the collies - a reaction to your bad experience? I hope you and pooches can become friends again. I look forward to your next adventure.
Yes! There were about 6 dogs and I think I only managed to get a few of them on camera!