welshbairn Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Comrie said: The Black isle Bar is a cracking pub with great beers, good food and decent craic. You need to remortage if you want to get leathered there. Same for The Malt Room, kinda hidden away by the Market Bar, but it's small, intimate and has a great selection of whisky. The boy that runs it is sound as well, knows his whisky and played a bit for Clach when he was younger, though I don't remember him from my occasional Clach games. Again, it's not cheap like most of the better pubs in Inverness. I wish they would keep the secret garden secret, instead of putting a big neon sign up with a fucking arrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Lunch at Oystercatcher, Otter Ferry. The spot is hit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Any idea when campsites are likely to be back open, we usually do Applecross every year round about now but with the campsite being shut and the place probably being over run with arseholes in their campervans it's looking like it may be a write off this year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, Empty It said: Any idea when campsites are likely to be back open, we usually do Applecross every year round about now but with the campsite being shut and the place probably being over run with arseholes in their campervans it's looking like it may be a write off this year. Thought campsites were back open a few weeks ago? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Thought campsites were back open a few weeks ago?After a wee bit reading it looks like they're allowed to open but most are just allowing campervans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 A lot of sites are either not opening this year or conveniently excluding tents 'because of Covid' and absolutely nothing to do with trying to ram in more campervans and folk into on-site lodges etc. for more money, not one bit at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 We went camping at Big Sand, Gairloch a couple of weeks ago. Booked ahead with no problems. Toilets, showers and restaurant all open with minimal disruption. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Looked to be lots of sites accepting tents in Mull this week but as virginton alludes to there has been a steady reduction in the number of sites over the last 10 years accepting tents in favour of more lucrative customers and I don't doubt Covid will accelerate that. All part of our wonderfully fucked approach to tourism where we see it as the only industry that the highlands and islands should aspire to whilst central and local govt puts literally no resources into the infrastructure required 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Arrived in Applecross last night for our annual camping trip, full of your Benidorm crowd shouting at all hours steaming drunk, can spot them from miles off "wild camping" with their rental camper vans, massive fires and blaring shite music. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Empty It said: Arrived in Applecross last night for our annual camping trip, full of your Benidorm crowd shouting at all hours steaming drunk, can spot them from miles off "wild camping" with their rental camper vans, massive fires and blaring shite music. The "wild camping" crowd are a major pain in the arse for the locals this year. Leaving the rural communities they enter looking like a sewer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Anyone that visits the highlands camping regularly I would 100% give it a miss this year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 6 hours ago, Empty It said: Anyone that visits the highlands camping regularly I would 100% give it a miss this year. How come? Tinks and their covid-riddled litter everywhere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 How come? Tinks and their covid-riddled litter everywhere?Exactly, just arseholes everywhere, not peaceful at all like it usually is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 15 hours ago, 8MileBU said: How come? Tinks and their covid-riddled litter everywhere? Do you know that tinks is a pejorative term for travellers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 4 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: Do you know that tinks is a pejorative term for travellers? As historically explained to the dearly departed Jimmy85, we no longer live in the 1930’s and like the word “gay”, “tink” has somewhat had an extension of definition over the years. I was born in 1980, and as long as I’ve been alive it’s been commonly used to describe a scruffy/unhygienic/dirty/unkempt type of person. If “tink” is on the P&B list of bad words, I’m more than happy to cease its use if a mod requests I do so. Until such time, for avoidance of doubt, I’d just like to clarify I’m using it to describe the littering dropping, house parting, covid-spreading, scheme-dweller types who have recently been a blight upon our beautiful Highlands and Islands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclizine Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Likewise, it was a common term of mild abuse for appearing scruffy or dirty at school in the Highlands. However, it is definitely a slur against the traveller community (a recognised ethnic group in the UK) and should be binned. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 (edited) Short for tinkers when travellers were known for selling pots and pans, from the noise of them jangling about on their carts. Unless I've swallowed a myth. So using it to label "littering, house parting, covid-spreading, scheme-dweller types" is plainly wrong, "tinks" should refer to entrepreneurial types who get on their bike and make something of themselves. Edited September 1, 2020 by welshbairn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 16 hours ago, welshbairn said: Short for tinkers when travellers were known for selling pots and pans, from the noise of them jangling about on their carts. Unless I've swallowed a myth. So using it to label "littering, house parting, covid-spreading, scheme-dweller types" is plainly wrong, "tinks" should refer to entrepreneurial types who get on their bike and make something of themselves. I heard something similar - the word is derived from Tinsmiths who would repair tin items such as pots and pans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 FFS. Right, I’ll use a different word. Let’s have this thread go back to being about the Highlands now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 I've had three days meandering around the Highlands, based from Inverness. Excellent wee break, very much welcomed change of scenery. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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