New & Looking for Scottish Friends :)

[Crystal_Marie]

Hello!
I am new to this website and I love Scotland!! I will be somewhere over there next year, and would love to make some friends, maybe even get to see some of ya'll (yes, I'm from Texas )

Anyhow, I am 27 (will be 28 in April '08), I love reading and I enjoy writing, I currently work 2 jobs, one for the money - it's an office job with a cabinet company - and the other because I love it so much! It's called Jefferson & Cypress Bayou Railway (Historic Jefferson Railway) and they do a run-away fright train during Halloween called Terror on the Bayou and right now we are in the middle of our Rail of Lights - which is a whole bunch of Christmas lights and different scenes, depicting different areas of the US or other Countries and what they do for their version of Christmas. During the off seasons, they do a Ghost Train and tell stories of different encounters that some people have had in and around the Jefferson area.

Ok, well that went off topic but I love it out there... Anyhow, I guess that I just would like someone that is not strange (lol) and fun to talk to! So if you would like a Texan Pen-Pal then let me know!!

Thanks
Crystal

[mikeyBoab]

Hi Crystal and welcome. Where do you hope to visit in Scotland? Are you a train buff then?

[Crystal_Marie]

I don't know where I want to go yet...just that I want to get there. I want to see some of the Highlands and of course I want to see the castles I want to see and do just about everything. I want to try mutton (sp) and I don't really know what it consists of...hehe...

What are good areas to go see that aren't really tourist traps? Because I want to see areas that tourists don't go to see or don't think to go to see.

Thanks

[Polwarth]

Mutton consists of older sheep's meat, rather like lamb is young sheep....

I suspect you mean you'd like to try haggis?

And areas that tourists don't see? You'd be mad, but if you insist, why not try Pilton or Wester Hailes in Edinburgh and perhaps Sighthill in Glasgow?

[Crystal_Marie]

lol - yeah haggis is what i meant...those places that you mentioned they aren't the Scottish version of the American Ghetto's are they? I want to see areas that are interesting and fun and that tourists wont be there over-running the place, ya know what I mean?

[Polwarth]

Frankly?

The only place tourists don't overrun in the tourist season IS the 'ghettoes'.

Read 'Trainspotting'.... it will illuminate areas that are not on the tourist beat, that's for sure (as my American friends might say).

[Crystal_Marie]

OK
Thanks
So - being that this is a Pen Pal site, where are you from and all that stuff?