Life in Scotland

Felisek

Senior Member
Here it is. My first attempt on a semi-regular picture thread. As someone pointed out to me, the usual, ordinary things around us are not necessary ordinary for people from across the world. A typical house in Scotland might be quite different from a typical house in the USA, or, even more so, in Thailand. A road with cars going the "wrong" way is certainly different here than in Belgium. Hence, I will try to capture the ordinary, the world around me that is so familiar, that it might seem unremarkable to me. I hope it is not unremarkable to you.

I'm not sure what the best way of doing this is, so I will try collecting some pictures first and then release them within a "theme". You will see photos taken today and months ago together. I hope you don't mind.

Here it is. Life in Scotland.
 

Felisek

Senior Member
Housing

A typical tenement house, as it is known here. A very characteristic apartment block. You will find them everywhere across Scotland and the UK.

Street view
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Entrance
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Bay windows; one of the flats is for sale
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Wheelie bins (garbage bins)
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Felisek

Senior Member
Housing

In contrast with previous pictures (also contrasting weather), a modern (built last year) block of posh flats with a river view
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Felisek

Senior Member
Parks

Local nature reserve. A small pond between residential estates. 200 years ago it used to provide water to bleach works and other textile mills. The ponds were created to accumulate water from the local river. In those days it was extremely polluted. Now, it's been converted into a nature reserve with swans, ducks, herons and other wildlife.

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Felisek

Senior Member
Housing

Bungalows. In the UK a bungalow is a single-storey building. They are popular among retired people (no need to climb upstairs). Quite often you will find an immaculate little garden at the front.
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Felisek

Senior Member
Housing

Family homes. Detached two-storey houses with three or four bedrooms. Modern houses are surprisingly small (apparently smallest in Europe) and often crammed in large residential estates with twisty little streets (no grid of blocks) and nothing else but houses. No shops, no post office. You have to drive everywhere.

The houses in these pictures are slightly bigger than average.

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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Housing

Bungalows. In the UK a bungalow is a single-storey building. They are popular among retired people (no need to climb upstairs). Quite often you will find an immaculate little garden at the front.
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They got there name because a builder ran out of bricks,when ask what he was going to do he replied bung a low roof on it :D

Its nice to see the none tourist images of Scotland.
 

jay_dean

Senior Member
That's the idea of this thread. I suppose they are not so different from England so far.
True, the info and images could be in England. However, like you said, people not from Britain may find the images of this country interesting. I do, and i live here!;)
 

SteveH

Senior Member
I visited Dundee a month or so ago, and wow, what a change since I was last there around 25 years ago!

A visit to the RRS Discovery in the marina is well worth it!
 

Felisek

Senior Member
I don't have a dog, so I had to check on our Council's web site. Yes, they provide free dog poop bags:

The Council currently issues around 4 million dog bags a year which are available from Council offices as well as many other outlets throughout the city. We also have in excess of 1300 dog waste bins which annually collects approximately 180 tonnes of dog waste. There should be no excuse in leaving dog mess on the streets, parks and beaches.
 
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