Decided to take a break from the usual travel-telling rigmarole and have a random blurt about things that i have come across during my loop to looping of Britian.
Scotland, that big bit of land north of England. In 1651 (if this is the wrong feel free to laugh about me talking about somethign i dont really know, im good at that!) Scotland was forcibly annexed by the Kingdom of England. Since then Scotland has offered to the world such varied delights as Alexander Bell, Franz Ferdinand (ok, even if all but one of the band members are english!) and deep-fried Mars Bars (a wonderous invention!). In return, the Scots have been the priviliged guinea pigs of Maggie Thatcher's proposed Pole Tax, the Black Watch Edinburgh military unit is always sent to the front of the line in any given war and they have to get subjugated to England's answer to Franz Ferdinand, Blue. This doesnt seem to be a very fair deal here to me. Nearly all the other lands of which England decided to plunder have been given license to set about their own business, Scotland seemed a nice enough place to be given theirs. True this is a rather snap judgement based on very limited information and they do have their own legal, health and education system but so do the states of Australia. On that note, Scotland has some interesting if more logical laws. Its the only place I know of that gives the 2nd of January as a public holiday as well to help in the recovery process! Some of the more interesting ones include the right to knock on anyones door and demand a glass of water and the usage of their loo, or any 3 St Andrews students together who are wearing their academic gowns having the power to direct traffic as they please. But I digress.
