Dumbarton 

Many thanks.

Good did u vist dumbarton

@@danmathewsrajeeve Certainly one day. Hopefully we can make the trip soon when international travel resumes. Looking forward to the day! 😊

I live in dumbarton

@@danmathewsrajeeve It looks like a beautiful town. Can't wait to see it in person!

Looks nice but is very boring the only thing u can do is. Visit Dumbarton Castle and levengrew park

Cheers Neil. 👍

Thanks.

Many thanks. The following video starts in Alexandria, and may be of interest to you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qbVrUe-kN10.html

Mags, many thanks for your comment. Constructive comments are always welcome, and you've made a number of good points. I'd like to address a few of them. The Dumbarton video was one of the first I made where I was walking and talking in front of the camera. My intention, apart from having a bit of fun in the video environment, WAS to make Dumbarton look good, irrespective of what state the tide was in, and to be honest I think I've made a pretty good job of making Dumbarton look pretty good. I was aware of the fact that many visitors to Dumbarton would not venture into the town centre, visiting just the castle and nothing else, and I wanted to try to show the best side of the town centre. At the time of my visit Dumbarton was in a pretty dismal state. Much of how it appeared was as a result of high levels of unemployment, the resulting closed shops and large numbers of public houses testament to that. The shopping centre was almost completely abandoned, with just a cafe and army recruitment centre, the latter of which has now gone. As far as the castle is concerned, of course I could have checked opening times; I might be an old guy but I have seen a computer! The point I was trying to make was the rather weird and very restrictive opening hours of Historic Environment's castles and other tourist attractions in winter. Not everyone totally plans a visit to a town; some folk just turn up out of the blue, or on a whim. These restrictive opening hours do nothing for the tourist industry in Scotland. For the record, my spit on the walls of Dumbarton Castle was not a real spit, but maybe it should have been. Once again, many thanks. PS - I've already penciled in Overtoun House for my next visit.

Absolutely.

Nup. There is beauty and wonder in all things and in all places, and I'm sure if you really look you will find them where you are. That said, we look forward to seeing you back in Scotland.

Merida the Brave, We need boats and jobs. I shoveled and swept snow and appreciate the clean, relatively quiet near Lake.

Thanks.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿That was a nice mention of old memories of the Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary sailing to 🇺🇸New York past Dumbarton Rock 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 which I knew nothing about. Thank you.

@@nonaknight9491 You are very welcome Nona! Uncle James was very fond of telling me that story. What a thrill it must have been for him & his school friends, to see the brand new RMS Queen Mary sail past Dumbarton Rock on the river Clyde. I never tired of hearing his story! One day - I hope to see her myself in Long Beach CA 🤞🤞🤞

Cheers.👍

Thanks Susanne. I've uploaded a more recent video about Dumbarton - something about a heffalump or whatever. Check it out, as I think in that one I do briefly mention the Cutty Sark.

Many thanks. Dumbarton's a lovely place. Sometimes we only have to look to find good things.

Edward Burns it surely looks beautiful, will visit some day. From Manchester.

Many thanks.

Check out Pete Kelly channel specifically concise of DunBritain rock. I like Herc. Anderson Linton's relaxing day as he drew sketch of Woodyard with Dunbritain Rock and then Scott & Linton marvelous boats and ships next to each other under shipyard expertise. Linn Fern, ' a perfect Beauty ' as builder called her. I'm sorry the far east used the abilities of this wonderful area for eventual war, waste of material and men .

From one lovely place to another.

Many thanks. I was having a little fun from the wrong angle. And it does indeed look a bit like an elephant when viewed from the other side of the Clyde as you suggest.

Great wee toon

Many thanks. The music at that point is a track called 'The Sea', taken from the album, 'Where the Mountains Become Clouds' by yours truly, Eddy Burns, available to download from most digital music platforms.

I used to get them in army surplus type shops, but they're generally new and not surplus. The make was Blue Castle , but the quality of these has deteriorated over the years to the point where I would never buy them again. It's getting harder and harder to find trousers as good as my old ones. I'm so used to them now I'd be struggling with something different. They're ideal for hiking because the material is strong, it dries quickly, and the side pockets are ideal for maps, although a little more length would help in that area.

Many thanks eddy. All the best.

I've not, but I can see it on Google Street View and it looks like a nice old row of housing.

I didn't know there were caves. I might have to check that out. Thanks.

@@EdExploresScotland its not really caves its more just a load of rocks tbh

Good question. Britainshire, I imagine.

Very patriotic toon you always see the saltire flying

Many thanks Graham. I've actually made a second more recent video of Dumbarton ('Dumbarton 2 - Rise of the Heffalump') and included an image from exactly where you've said. It's certainly a pretty stunning view from across the Clyde.

@@EdExploresScotland The Elephant wasn't the Castle. They were two distinct and different things. The castle is obviously the Castle, but the Elephant is actually Dumbuck Hill that you pass coming from Glasgow along the Stirling Road. At a certain point the hill can be distinctly seen as an Elephant. So, journeying in from Glasgow you'd first pass the Elephant (Dumbuck Hill) and then you'd see the Castle up ahead, hence The Elephant & Castle.

@@EdExploresScotland The Elephant wasn't the Castle. They were two distinct and different things. The castle is obviously the Castle, but the Elephant is actually Dumbuck Hill that you pass coming from Glasgow along the Stirling Road. At a certain point the hill can be distinctly seen as an Elephant. So, journeying in from Glasgow you'd first pass the Elephant (Dumbuck Hill) and then you'd see the Castle up ahead, hence The Elephant & Castle.

haha....my old mans from there.....i love it up there.....beautiful place.....apparently bad with the drugs...no change....

The account of Cutty Sark building by Brettle is a fascinating one. My pet cats & me prosjekt in Cedar Kee , Flowida is a very tiny likeness of Caledonia, made by Wm. Denny & Bros. of iron 20 yes. before the famous Composite Clipper today in Greenwich. Torrens and Dir Lancelot only two examples of big boat built before Harry John Cornish and Bernard Weymouth wrote Rules for Composite Ship in 1868 for Lloyd's. Although we Phoenician interested Hebr. like the water, I look to peaceful peaceable parts of Britain as I work on Caledonia.

sorry mate .

Hi, do you like your town? How's the weather there?

Great wee toon hopefully on the up again with all the new housing 👍

Balmaha. Got it on my to do list. Lovely hill.