Scotland is back and so am i
oh my god i can't go on the blooper reel hey my name is Shaun and welcome to scotland and welcome to a brand new season of vlogs right here on my youtube channel and in this video i'm going to be taking you to meet some of my friends around scotland and enjoying the beautiful weather right here in edinburgh a special shout out and thanks to my patreon members whose support and contributions allow me to keep this channel going thank you all for watching good morning from beautiful sunny scotland in springtime oh it feels good to be back got fresh northeast wind right in my face here in edinburgh but the sun is shining and the temperature's not bad it's all good and i'm happy to be here again i think this is the first time i've been out on portobello beach all year and welcome back to my channel and welcome to another vlog i've kind of been slow off the mark since getting home from brazil to start doing vlogs again here but you know i'm i'm back i have got a action-packed full video for you guys today meeting some people going to some places that i think you're going to enjoy so last week exactly one week ago today it was another beautiful sunny spring morning here in scotland and i went out to craigmiller castle in edinburgh my favorite castle here in edinburgh to meet another scottish youtuber who many of you guys already know and we did our first collab one for his channel and also for right here on this vlog so that's where we're starting today before we get into i just want to say welcome everyone thank you very much for joining in right here on this channel it's great to see you here as always back in scotland and if you're new to my channel don't forget to hit the subscribe button and give me a thumbs up let's go back in time a week look at us how you doing hi how are you doing i'm good i'm just trying to get the thing uh set up good good and this is your favorite castle it is indeed and it's only i've i've drove like 10 minutes to get here so easy for me a bit longer for you but i'm in a big journey right okay i'm going down the borders we're going to explore places we're going to go and see castles doing their uh battlefields and all that kind of stuff right how how we used to fight the english you weren't doing there now i do yeah i'm a bit of a turncoat if you could you could say yeah hey am i you're the first scotsman are going to london exactly exactly james james sixthdid it i mean half the country did it it's true um so i'm here we're going to do a bit of a well we're going to do a couple of videos here on this channel obviously the vlog we're going to do a really great video on your channel as well hopefully hopefully um and we'll we'll see how we get on but it's a nice day it's a bit chilly like but yeah but the sun the sun's out and uh you can see the bay you can see arthur's seat that's not actually after seat it's arthur seats around here isn't it so you've got the crags on that you call this salisbury crag you've got the crags on that side and then you've got the the top arthur seat right in the middle yeah up there there's a cracking spot it's a bunny location the thing is it's like it's right it's 10 15 minutes for everybody center people don't realize that you know and the thing is craigmiller gets a reputation does it but i've driven through it and trust me there are places where i'm from then craigmiller i can tell you that it does get a repetition but it's all right you know i grew up around here um and i went to school actually just over the other side of craig miller at high school and and it was a wee bit off but it was you know it was fine it doesn't feel any rougher than i did a video in airdrie once to be fair it was worse than the 90s it's better now ah right okay it's all right up and coming yeah yeah way you've got let's get this set let's get set up and let's get going take my sunglasses off because i kind of see in the dark and it gets quite dark in there i don't know fall down the spiral staircase so these are coming off do someplace in europe yeah of course there's about quite a lot of echo but hopefully our microphones will sort that out hopefully hopefully nobody gives an atmosphere yeah it does yeah this is the the great hall where all the parties would have happened you can see the you can see the picture up there it tells you more about some of the parties that would have had would have been all fancy carpets on the wall it's beautiful lords hall is the actual name of it so the reason that this castle is so important to me is because i basically grew up you know with an eyesight of where we are now you can just see over there that big white building which is now little it's not like france anymore it is the edinburgh infirmary but people still talk about little france yeah so i think even on the road though there's a sign that says little france so i think there's still there's still a connection there were little france this part of the land is known as little france and basically the reason i know about that is because my grandparents way back you know 20 years ago we used to own the caravan site so they used to own they used to own the caravan site which is where the hospital is now and it was called little france caravan park yeah it's a place that a lot of people used to come to stay when they went to the festival or the rest of it so who did your grandparents buy the caravan park from i don't actually know that it wasn't the french it wasn't the french i don't think but um we're going back a long time now like early 90s or something like that but you used to get all the vagabonds i wanted to come to edible and put shows on at the festival because it was the cheapest place of course there was a good kind of vibe over that the campsite anyway the campsite was called little friends and the reason that that was said to be the case is because when mary queen of scots here she obviously had some guards that were french and they can't throw it down in that bit of land just over the side of the castle there and i think some of them ended up staying building a little bit of a community and it became little france yeah down there just behind the cottages and where the hospital is now and that name like i said sticks around till today yeah and it's an interesting history and because of that um i got interested in the story of mary queen of scots there was also an old tree stump in the caravan park which the legend has it that she planted or that she used to come and sit under and and um actually i mean it could have been that but the council anyway ended up taking the tree away once the campsite was sold off for the hospital to be built so that part history was removed but we knew about mary's connection to the land here through little france and all the rest of it and it was it was grand and that's why this is my favorite castle because it means a lot to me as a kid growing up it was all the nostalgia stuff and we used to just come in here and kind of sneak in the grounds and mess around as kids as well you know before it was all like ticketed and stuff we have from about tickets yeah yeah because that's the thing that people forget when you come to places like this that it has a life long after people think that it's finished for people like you growing up here and also like if you look down there and it's obviously off camera you can see the woods there there's also like a lot of old brick buildings and stuff they would have been way after the time of the castle but like there's a lot of other bits of history in there we're never sure what it was about yeah and there's also the big pawn down there you can see the outline of it with the p shape which is for the preston family so there's bits in the land here that's quite interesting yeah anyway that's why we came here today and that's why it's my favorite castle not edinburgh castle but bruce i want to say thank you for coming here and me it's been great fun isn't it it's been growing you know we've been wanting to do videos together for ages i think you're you're actually a legend people love your videos and you're so funny and i want to come into your stand-up shows at some point yeah you're doing them next time yeah but also your youtube videos are just so informative and i've talked me a lot about my own history that i had no idea about so thank you for that you're welcome i love your videos and you know all you guys watching need to go and see your videos which is scotland history scholarly history tours yeah and right now as we're finishing this video and posting it on the channel you are doing a bit of a tour all right i'm going to do seven days along the scotland england border but lots of little history things we've we've hired our a camper van from perthshire camper uh and we're gonna spend seven days in the camper van driving about the borders talking about the history the battles the standoffs the negotiations and stuff like that that's going to be brian i'm looking forward to seeing that video series on your channel and all you guys watching should definitely obviously subscribe but check out that video series i'll put a link down below to that video the next one coming out to you and then there'll also be a card up here somewhere uh so make sure you check those videos you always bring scotland to life for me through history and i think that's you know it's brilliant that's what we're trying to do that's what i'm trying to do so again thank you great to meet you and let's do more videos in the future some point so i've got my favorite castle next we'll go your favorite one right all right okay well i hope you have a great tour and i'll be checking out those videos and so should i do cheers so after doing that video with bruce in edinburgh i've actually come to bruce's hometown that was a week ago one week later we are here in stirling i've come here with some friends to show them around oh my god it's so bright and sunny it's unbelievable lovely spring day here in scotland where is that we are here that there is a worst monument come here with some friends and i thought i'll show you guys around that's cool that's a wooden version of the real thing up there over locked down i seem to have lost all my ability to climb hills i'm not fit anymore what happened covert happened do you know angie there's people here in scotland they climb up all the mountains the monroe's big the big mountains in the highlands this is like not even this no it's not even hiding them do you think you could do them no you know i have to like have a proper trainment before because i can't breathe well since we i had two twice to call it and we don't go outside anymore so much now probably in winter it's nice yeah got a flag up there look it's not really blowing at the moment come on flag do your thing i can't believe so we were just saying it's been two years since we did a video together and that is new years new years ah it was so good though isn't it new year's in 2019 yeah just before all that exactly we've actually been doing a podcast together we've done lots of videos together on the channel back it's so good to see and we've just randomly um came to sterling today on the same day on such a beautiful day yeah thanks and you were like um so we're going to go up at the wall this morning and have a look it's kind of high exactly i feel like i need to hold on oh my god i don't know if it comes across on camera but it is actually very record my shoes it's pretty high uh away some of these weapons look absolutely brutal like obviously swords in that is quite dangerous in the dagger but there's an axe there and there's also like kind of bludgeon thing down there look at that see the light we made it we made it we're alive oh my god it's quite windy up here but wow what are we seeing everything really nice yes so we've got there look at your hair that i'm wearing trousers underneath the coat that's why let's see i'm gonna go up anyway oh that's pretty high wow look at that view yeah that is the city of sterling down there oops i don't want to go too close to edge i'm holding that about the sterling bridge took place right down there in that field and those fields that sterling castle there and the city is still in there you're so crazy right him there's like a line and then above it there's a goose or a duck's head or something it could be a swan and then a thistle angie what do you think of the worst moment did you like it yeah very but it's very like tiring a lot yeah it's a lot of steps a lot of steps and some people don't wait for people to go down get down to like hold your hair yeah otherwise you've got shitty photos because it's like this is such a nice day and even on a day like this it's still windy up there yeah very weak so it was yesterday we went up to sterling had such a good time going around the walls monument not been there for a few years with angela felipe lucas and teca and then also randomly bumping at the wii scottish lass moscow moon who i've not seen for two years despite the fact that we do a podcast together we shall not leave it that long again in future but you know what i'm feeling pretty fulfilled being back in scotland right now especially with the weather starting to turn since i got back from brazil the first month was pretty grim to be honest the weather was atrocious and i just wasn't i don't know i hate the i hate the rainy weather that we get here which is sad to say quite often the case well like i said we've had two weeks of absolutely beautiful sunshine and great weather here and as you can see today and yesterday and the week before in the videos i've showed you it's just been absolutely smashing which is why i thought i would come out here to portobello beach this morning let's see if i can kick start back we're going walks and runs in the morning which i'm not going to do today i'm just coming out for a wee tester a wee bit of a walk to show you guys how it's looking but i want to get something and then take you guys into town we are here in edinburgh city center it's really really nice there's a lot of people here it's very busy and we passed the place we wanted to go on it's very busy but let's go and take some photos for instagram all right tucker maybe maybe yeah we're going to take photos amazing photos i know all the spots you know all the spaces yeah uh and you've been teaching me some stuff on instagram as well which i'm really happy about um about how to do reels properly so go and follow both all of us on instagram i'll put a link it's the crazy thing about them around the nice weather like i said two seconds ago in the sun i was warm and now in the shade i'm cold so jackets are required but look at that it's the castle behind me such a nice day people up there on the grass it's amazing the castle looks so pretty and this fake flowers i think fix fake we wanted to come to this place for a long time because there's always a queue here which means it should always be a good place to come i would imagine and again today there's a crew that goes all the way down the street i think it's ice cream and milkshakes maybe minis oh my god i can't go on the blooper reel um there's a famous set of stairs here that everybody comes to take photos for instagram and i've never been here in my life i've just been here yeah it was actually my second place no second place had a visit for the first time i was in edinburgh yeah yeah so it's called the venom the venom it's outside the flooding wall so it goes right next to the graveyard yeah i've never been here i don't know why and i live here i was born i was born about 200 meters the other side of the really oh my god yeah in the simpsons hospital which doesn't exist anymore um yeah never been here but it's all on instagram like if you type edinburgh on instagram probably this place is going to come out first we yes right in six in the morning yeah then we spent like one hour in the christmas streets gardens and then we came here because everything was closed so it was summer as well it looks like we're not the only people here to take photos today as well awesome oh there's taking photos has made us quite hungry so we're going to go into this cafe here french place and to get some tea cakes apparently it's very good angie's been here before i have not let's go you can do it it's like a cheesecake with caramel it's got this because see a long last as well edinburgh is starting to be a bit buzzing with tourists they're all back after several years disruption because they're pandemic definitely seems like the tourists are back there's two guides doing their thing there's lots of people taking photos and all the spots it's nice yeah it does help there's a nice sunny day though look at that i actually just posted an instagram mail from victoria street on my page today but it was in the dark as you can see in a day like today it's all lit up we're here in the queue waiting for our ice cream made his milk here and we finally decided we'll actually come here on the q away and try this place out because all these people wait and it must be good it must be this guy's giving up easily he's gonna wait there for the cue to pass that's the best idea look at that look at the queue goes all the way back down the street finally got our ice cream i got two salted caramels i've already tried it to be fair and it's all right it's not the best ice cream i've ever had in my wildlife what'd you get angie pistachio and tahini with lemon and honey this is very nice yeah pistachio is okay because yeah i love i really love the gelato from italy it's my favorite but this is there's a lot of milk of course because the name is milk yeah it should be okay yeah it's okay i mean the classic ice cream in edinburgh is called lucas that's good and i think it's kind of like the same to be honest i think that's kind of bad bad part of edinburgh that up there that is glasgow's thing i'm not sure we should be taking that that's like a glasgow thing i had a con yeah i feel like we shouldn't steal that it's like a glasgow yeah they're going to be they're going to be making fun of us for trying to do that as well i think the one in glasgow now has the ukrainian colors oh yeah they changed it i think somebody should say that i feel embarrassed final moments of sunlight tonight sunset here in edinburgh and we're on princess street and it's absolutely gorgeous i know i've taken loads of videos or princess tweet my channel before but when it looks like this you just need to take advantage right tech is actually here to go into some shops into h m i'm going to let her go in and i'm going to stay out here and take some videos b-roll i need to do it sorry i was going to come in with you i'm staying um foreign did not expect to bump into this tonight you
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