The connection between People and Place - Indigenous, Native, Natural, Patriotic ❤ Duthchas has no direct English translation but basically described a Gael’s pride and connection to his place :-)
Only country in the world where billionaire foreign landowners can decimate huge tracts of land and persecute birds of prey for monetary gain in a "National park" , what an absolute joke. The only thing the so called "national park" does is attract thousands of campervans , creates congestion and allows air bnb owners to charge double the rate they would elswhere.
My late wife and I spent a holiday in that area and it was truly fabulous. That was in 1994. I still tell friends who visit Scotland that when they travel north, don''t just go to the Western Isles or stay straight up on the motorway - turn right to the likes of Tomintoul, Braemar, Ballater, Balmoral Castle and the River Dee. Being there is an unforgettable experience. Oh, and for whisky fans, the Whiskey Castle in Tomintoul - there's a glimpse in the video - is a goldmine. I do hope the regeneration plan works out. With so many younger folk now able to work remotely the need to be in a big city is no longer an issue. Cheers from Canada.
The whisky castle isn’t the same since the wee Englishman retired. It’s not their fault but the current staff just don’t have the knowledge or experience. It used to be my go to spot for whisky but now I just buy my whisky at Gordon & McPhail in Elgin.
Authentic experience?! Experience our culture? What culture is left? Every c@#t that spoke in this video was English! That's the reality of our area, English buy all the houses, land, farms and crofts. Either to live in themselves or to rent as Airbnb's. English own all the businesses. English work in every supermarket, hotel, shop, restaurant and pub, hospitals, police, fire service and ambulance service. English weasel themselves into running local councils. English interfere at every level in every community. English proactively pull English in, whilst simultaneously ensuring Highlanders get pushed out. The clearances all over again by stealth. Shameful video, for shameful times, by a shameful government, intent on betraying everyone of its countrymen north of Perth. Some things remain ever constant. Cairngorms, the biggest English county outside of England would be a more accurate lead in.
Petty bourgeois bureaucrats, are want to wax lyrical on things they know nothing of, when they do they will usually end with pissing someone else's money up against a wall and writing a little article in the Guardian about it. Before falling into a slumber of utter perfection, usually in their second home, on the odd occasion they have nightmares about Ellon Musk, or worst a working man of vigour.
So is Damming and Zippering a technique which induces the holding back of water in the bog? It can be carried out on a long drain which was already there? A man made drain cut out during a time of less ecological awareness. Great work and video
Yes it can be carried out on long drains, and it will allow the natural water pathway to be reinstated, through the upper margins of the peatland and the vegetation. It should also allow the peatland to hold onto the saturated water held in deeper peat levels.
I am so thrilled to say that we're moving to Tomintoul in the next few months :) Moving from England to Scotland has been a dream of ours for Years, now we finally get to make our dreams come true.
Fab-u-lous. In 2011 we stayed two weeks in a self-catering cottage in Dulnain Bridge. And boy oh boy did we enjoy the Cairngorms. Thank you for this video, it brings back happy memories. Greetings from the Netherlands
I love Loch Garten, literally my favourite place on earth. Any time I head to the highlands I have to visit the Loch, it's a different experience each time, just magical.
Thank you for this beautiful presentation. Please develop detailed educational tours to offer visitors a more in-depth understanding of Flora and fauna, so that we can further the task of protecting our precious world - of which the Cairngorms is such a precious treasure. Please reach out to national communities in the UK who might not usually choose the Cairngorms - Caribbean ethnicity or African ethnicity, Chinese or Philippine, or British Asian, Pakistan Bangladesh or Indian - & we must strengthen defense of our beautiful parks on a global basis. Thank you & I will support you - thank you for the happy hours I spent here when I was a school boy.
Interesting content, but the music was far too distracting. Not my taste personally, (something less 'twee'/stereotypically 'Scottish' would have been more effective and suitable) but the biggest issues was that it dominated the film, too loud, making it difficult to concentrate on the interviewees, which was a shame. But interesting wee film nonetheless.
