Animals in Scotland

In Scotland  there lives a lot of animals, for example wildcat, Golden Eagle and squirrel.

Today we saw all of these animals, but first we saw a wildcat, in Europa  the cat is yellowish gray, grayer on the back but lighter on the stomach and with almost a white neck. The head has extended stripes that meet at the neck and continue along the back. Slides and the cat*s legs are also striped.

 

The other animal we saw was a Golden Eagle, it was almost solid color dark brown but with golden crown and neck. Young birds have striking white star and a white field in the middle of each wing. 

The last animal we saw today was a squirrel, it can be 20-25 cm long and has a bushy tail, that can be about 15-20 cm long. The squirrel is maroon, with white stomach. But sometimes a darker grayish brown color occurs.  The squirrel occur most often in coniferous. 

Volvo

This is a Volvo 744 GLT ( Grand luxe tourning) whit a 16 valve engine . It is Bm red with the US front , and R wheels. We saw it when we refueled our car. I ran back and asked the owner if it was original and it was . I asked the owner if we could take a ride .  I jumped in the car and then we drove around the Loch Ness.

The climates in London

 In London it is high humidity. It's raining very much so you should have an umbrella with you. On the summer the temperature is between 100-110F on the day and 55-60F on the night. Over 115F is very rare in London. On the winter it's little windy with the temperature between 36-40F.

Snowfall is quite rare but can happen some time a year.

English car

into a career as an independent car builders 1947 when he built truly successful special models based on the technology of the Austin Seven 750. Following the success of its models, he decided to found Lotus Engineering Ltd in 1952. The first production model of success, Lotus 6 was sold as a kit. Despite the limited success in quantitative terms (approximately 100 copies), the Lotus 6 most success, even in reverse race. Successor Lotus 7 was legendary.

The Frank Costin developed Lotus 8 stood out above all by its aerodynamic sports bodywork. This model was not only the foundation for the followers Mk 9 and Mk 10 but also for the Mk 11, a race truck that won its class at Le Mans race. 1957 Lotus made its first exclusively for racing-built car. With Mk 12 began a remarkably successful career in motor sport, in which Lotus several times won the Constructors' Championship. Titles and first prizes reached Colin Chapman, not primarily by increasing performance, but through building lightly and by introducing new manufacturing methods.

Lotus became known as the Bond car in the late 1970s when the James Bond among others went under the water with a Lotus Esprit in one of the films. Lotus Esprit which started production in the 1970s was for many years the Lotus-seller and was further developed through the years. The model was discontinued in 2004.

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a musical instrument of Scottland recorded since around 4000 BC in Egypt, the origin is uncertain, but is believed to be the Middle East. Bagpipes were scattered across Europe during the Middle Ages and enjoyed during the 1600s and 1700s popularity even at the courts of Europe, (often in romantic contexts, the instrument also has been linked to herders and their practice.) Later on in Sweden, most survived in west Dalarna and northern Värmland, before finally dying out altogether in the early 1900s. With the guidance of the old instruments preserved from those areas do reconstructions of the Swedish bagpipes, posun or dråmban, performed by different luthiers and musicians. Today it is mainly in folk music that you can hear the bagpipes. Still associated bagpipe happy with Scotland and marching music. Various bagpipe types there are today in nearly all European countries, strong traditions are, for example, in Ireland, France, Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary.

Sports in England

The most famous sports in England is football, rugby, netball och tennis. We have been on a netball Match and it's like baseball but with different rules. For example you cannot dribble and cannot run with the ball. Body connection are not allowed. It's mostly girls that's

play the game, boy's can also play.

The Nature in England

The Nature in England consist mostly by a soft and surging lowlands. The country is green because it's raining very much. The Population has designed a beautiful country  with  parks and gardens. 

Several big rivers flows through the country. The biggest on is called  Themsen and flows through London.

Interesting facts about Scotland.

Language situation in Scotland

Language situation in Scotland is very complex. There are three variants of language in Scotland which in turn shows great dialectal variation: the Celtic language Scottish Gaelic, Scots Language (Scots) and a more local version of English (Scottish English).

According to the 2001 the Scottish Gaelic in Scotland of about 92 000 people speak in the Highlands and Argyll. https://youtu.be/8xVxOJCBPSw

Scots Language spoken mostly in the lowlands, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, in the northeast of the Scottish mainland and the Orkney and Shetland Islands. https://youtu.be/cENbkHS3mnY

Scottish English can be described as an English dialect with distinctive pronunciation. https: //youtu.be/8hGp6aHsZQY

Bus tour in the scottish Highlands

Today we traveled to the Scottish Highlands. We went to the cafe Rabbie's in Edinburgh. Where we paid 70 pounds for a trip in the Highlands in a little red bus. We were 5 people on the bus trip. We were a group of 16 people. The bus tour was a day long and we went around in the Scottish highlands. First we went to Scotland's highest mountain, and then we went to see Loch ness. We took a small boat trip on the lake. It cost £ 40 per person. Then we went to Edinburgh and eat Haggis on a café.

 Lock ness

Tourists attractions in England

There is very much tourists attraction in England but we didn't have time to visit more then tree. And this is Big Ben, London Eye and Madame Tussauds.

LONDON EYE

The London Eye is a Ferris wheel it’s said to be Europe's largest. You can see about 25 miles away in all directions . each capsule takes in 25 people , and it takes about half an hour to go . The London Eye has 3.5 million visitors each year . It is London 's most famous tourist attraction , and it is located on Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road SE1 7PB.

BIG BEN

Big Ben 's clock tower at the Houses of Parliament and is also London's most famous landmark . the clock tower rang for the first time May 31, 1859 after the parliament house rebuilt after a huge fire around 1835. The bell tower is 96.3 meters high and the minute hand is 4.3 meters long . Big Ben is on the Palace of Westminster House of Commons , London SW1A OAA .

MADAME TUSSAUDS

Madame Tussauds , the world's largest collection of wax figures . all the models are of world famous film icons, royalty, artists, athletes , poets and politicians. the museum you will find over 400 figures in a human scale . the museum opened its doors for the first time in almost 200 years ago. Madame Tussauds is on Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LR.

England

The national flower of England is the rose. The flower has been adopted as England's emblem since the time of the wars of the roses (1455-1485)

It's was between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose)

And the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose)

Inhabitant in England

England is divide in nine different regions and the country is a very densely populated country. It is totally 51 million's of residents in England. In London, there lives totally 12 million's of residents. It's more people in London than it is in Sweden.