My First Trip to Scotland - a travel journal

**Jock Scot** · 16th January 10, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Galician

Nearly eight centuries of occupancy! as a historian, my mind boggles at the thought.

You have indeed had a priceless experience of family roots.

I'm now curious about the fate of those documents the men showed you, and what information you might have gotten from them.

Whilst I can understand that eight centuries is a long time, but it is not unusual in Europe, not just Scotland, or the whole of the UK for that matter, for family histories, houses or a combination of both to go back for at least that length of time. In many ways, I think many in Europe do take our history very much for granted.

**Noel Christian Riddell** · 16th January 10, 01:28 PM

So many family histories were seemingly lost in the Atlantic during various waves of immigration to the new world. It's a shame that so much is lost and often impossible to recover.

I consider it a duty and privilege to learn and preserve that which I can.

**Ozark Ridge Rider** · 16th January 10, 07:41 PM

Great story and pics. We hope to get to a lot of those places soon. My fair lass wants to look up Scott roots, so we won't be far from there.

**Bigkahuna** · 17th January 10, 11:04 AM

What happened to all those old documents? I would consider them priceless.

**Jock Scot** · 17th January 10, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by Bigkahuna

What happened to all those old documents? I would consider them priceless.

Oh, many of those old documents in Scotland are under the two hundred year old carpets keeping, some, of the damp out. Or, stuffed into the gaps in between the wall and the windowframes, or, maybe they are keeping, unsuccessfully, the rain coming through the roof, or they have been used to burn the old house down 400 years ago when the then Laird got fed up with the old damp house and then rebuilt,at great expense, a new damp house.

**pdcorlis** · 17th January 10, 12:45 PM

A wonderful journey through time and history - thank you for taking us along with you.

**Lachlan09** · 18th January 10, 03:00 AM

Nicely told, very readable and enjoyable - thanks ! Tell us more, if you get the chance !

My auntie and uncle used to leive in Monifeith.

I lived both in Edinburgh and London and though London is great in many ways, you need money or else it's a drudge.

Eating out is expensive in London. We couldn't afford to eat out there unless it was TGIF or some chain with pegged prices, certainly not the Soho or West End restaurants. Even the only Filipino restaurant in Central London, in Charlotte St, off Tottenham Court Road, was humungously expensive for a glorified pinoy kabayan !