Scottish Highland Trails can provide experienced, professional guides for any and all aspects of your trip to Scotland. We offer accompanied tours with a local guide who will be with you throughout your trip, taking care of the practical arrangements as well as providing you with lots of interesting stories along the way! A guided tour is a great way to really make the most of your time in Scotland. We can provide guides with foreign languages as well as specialist guides (for example, wildlife guides) depending on your interests and requirements. Please contact us for further information.
Jill McKean, owner of Scottish Highland Trails, is an experienced guide and holder of the Scottish Tourist Guides Association “Blue Badge”, the only professionally accredited qualification for tour guides in Scotland. Jill is a proud Scot and is passionate about the history, heritage and culture of our beautiful country. She would be delighted to accompany you on your tour to show you the best of Scotland!
See Jill’s profile on the Scottish Tourist Guides Association website here
I use all of these, all the time! My granny used to tell me I was “as thrawn as a bag o’ weasels” when I was a wee girl 😂💙🏴The Scots language has words for things no other language bothered to name.
Dreich — that specific grey, damp, miserable weather that isn't quite rain but isn't quite not rain either. The English say "overcast." The Scots say dreich, which sounds exactly like it feels.
Thrawn — stubborn in a particular way. Not just obstinate. Twisted, contrary, determined to do it the wrong way on purpose. There is no English equivalent because English speakers apparently gave up trying to describe this personality type.
Glaikit — vacant. Dopey. The expression on someone's face when the lights are on but nobody is home.
Couthie — warm, friendly, comfortable in a homely way. The feeling of a kitchen that smells like baking and has a dog asleep by the fire.
Wheesht — be quiet. But with feeling. Haud yer wheesht is the full version, and it means be quiet right now and I mean it.
Scunnered — utterly fed up. Beyond tired of something. A level of exasperation English doesn't have a single word for.
Every language reveals the priorities of the people who speak it.
Scottish priorities, apparently, include very specific weather, very specific stubbornness, and very specific silence.
Which one is your favorite? 👇
#ScottishHistory #ScottishHeritage #ScotsLanguage #ScottishWords
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Hope everyone has been enjoying the antics of the Tartan Army over in Boston for the World Cup! Glad to see the Glasgow tradition of putting cones on statues is alive and well across the pond 😂⚽️🏴The Scottish fans didn't just bring bagpipes and beer to Boston.
They brought traffic cones for the statues too.
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