Post #1131528

2026-04-09 14:09 UTC

Just read a post on a different platform where someone explains that they sold up everything and moved to &quot;the north of Scotland&quot;. Orkney maybe? I mean Shetland would be the obvious &quot;north of Scotland&quot; but I&#39;d give them Orkney. Even north Caithness, so the north of mainland Scotland. No .... they moved to Skye. Who wants to tell them there is a whole lot more of Scotland north of Skye? ✋

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@venite@mastodon.nl 2026-04-09 15:39

@HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot I was looking at it on the Organic Maps app to see how much more northern we’ve cycled and it did ask me if I wanted to download the “North of Scotland” map, so apparently Skye does count 🤭

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@tartanroots@mastodon.scot 2026-04-09 15:53

@HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot Years ago when we were doing a tourism job in the N of Highlands someone did a ‘mystery shopper’ in the then Tourist Board centre in Inverness and was told to go to Skye ‘because there is nothing to do or see north of that’.

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@tompearce49@mastodon.scot 2026-04-09 15:55

@HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot Wait till they learn about the midges and the rain and the gales... Not that they put us off, but we had moved from the Falkland Islands (but at least they have no midges)...

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@outdoorsbeth@mastodon.scot 2026-04-09 15:59

@HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot I'll raise you "the Highlands start at Loch Lomond"... I've heard it said many times. However Glengoyne distillery on the outskirts of Glasgow calls itself a Highland distillery! If I could be arsed I'd go edit their wikipedia entry.

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@uc@mastodon.scot 2026-04-09 16:11

@HelenLockhart@mastodon.scot Probably someone who didn't know there was much north of London once...

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