Inside the Schemes of Scotland 🏴
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- I came to the 'schemes' of Glasgow in Scotland! A scheme is a Scottish phrase for basically a rough area and it certainly lived up to its reputation. We came to Paisley and met some lively characters on the streets before discovering an abandoned area, it was crazy to see. But Scotland isn't just schemes it has it's beauty as well and we of course went there, despite our bad hangovers we ventured into the highlights in hunt for Haggis. Amazing to be back in Scotland! 🏴
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I'm surprised these Scottish people couldn't even tell Ben the correct meaning of a "scheme". A scheme simply means a council estate. It doesn't necessarily mean a rough area.
Council estate's are rough areas
Aye a scheme is a housing estate, usually a council one. Doesn't mean rough area, some are some aren't.
@@totebal1409 Coming from the Faifley, the only one I can think of is Parkhall and every house there was bought over in the 80s
@@totebal1409 but how would he know there is council estate's that aren't rough?
He's going by his experience not some data driven opinion
@@seanpadraigobrien1260 All I'm pointing out is that not all council estates are rough areas, you said they are. Maybe you ain't seen enough of them yet, lol.
Paisley was once one of the wealthiest places in the UK, at one point almost 90% of all the thread used in the world, was made in paisley. It’s wealth came from textile industry (there’s a famous pattern named after paisley). Just goes to show what happens when you take an industry a whole town relies on away!
I think its more the case that the people who owned the thread making industry were wealthy, but the general population lived in poverty.
Yes my daughter worked in the tartan factory in the 60's not long before it permanently closed down in 1967.
@@DPhoenixPoet yes I heard this too, my daughter was involved with the production of the third test print for that pattern. Muy bien!
@@DPhoenixPoet he knew Scottish anaesthetics were very beautiful.
No even fae paisley n this made me angry
Just an FYI for those watching who might not get this from the video, Paisley isn't Glasgow. It's the largest town in Scotland. You also wouldn't call the centre of town a "scheme". It's normally the roughest housing estates within towns or cities that are called schemes.
It’s a hundred percent not a scheme, has some of the nicest architecture you’ll see but the bampots calling it a scheme, hanging around drinking in the middle of the day think everywhere they go is a scheme.
The Scottish couple with them should have have them the context that this is not what 98% of the people in that street are like.
I was surprised that the two young Scottish people did not known the difference. I grew up in Wishaw whefe there were two major schemes. Coltness and Pather. Abot 90% of people living in that town came from one or the other.
Glasgow Airport is in Paisley though, just a shithole suburb 😊
Ferguslie Park Gallowhill lovely scenic places to visit
So like "projects" in US speak?
I live in Paisley and I wish someone would make a documentary showing all the great buildings there are, and how much history there is to it.
Paisley also isn't part of Glasgow like this film claims.
Do you know the lady with black hair and arm tattoo?
Aye...that's me. 😉@@TheCluelesspanda
@@maureeningleston1501 swear, what's your insta?
@@maureeningleston1501pretty lady 😉
Scotland is a country of contrasts. Great beauty and great ugliness. But what's universal across both aspects of Scotland is the Scottish people, who are some of the most lovely, friendly and funny people you will ever meet.
Couldn't agree more!
@BackpackerBen As a Scouser I found Glasgow a lovely place and the people are Salt of the Earth.
The Schemes are very similar to part's of Liverpool with house's boarded up with Steel shutters to keep the Scrap collectors out.
The people are very similar and definitely friendly and helpful.❤
Everyone says how rough Glasgow and the area is, but you also find the soundest cunts around there. If you ain't a cunt everyone's sound no matter where you go.
100% from a Canadian Scottish transplant always love seeing these videos, and sharing them with friends, well done that man
Being Scottish I tend to agree with you !
I lived with a Scot from Paisley who had his own house in north Haarlem in the Netherlands 2002.
I was there for 2 years working and it seemed like a holiday every day, even when I worked on construction for a dutch firm. It was always back to our pub for a pint or 10 at the end of the day. Wonderland.
I grew up in a council estate people would say is rough. I live in a busy city centre now and honestly; life was nicer in the estate!
I think the community on a council estate makes it a lot better (also grew up on one) everyone knows everyone but when you're in a city no one knows each other so they don't care.
I grew up in a middle class town to the north of london and honestly a lot of people were cold, insincere and judgemental. In contrary all I ever hear about people who grew up in estates is that they were like a big family with a community, everyone knows each other and helps each other out. Something I never experienced in the town I grew up in. Community isn't something money can buy!
He found the most middle-class Glaswegian couple available lol.
And that could of been any council estate in Britain 😂.
My daughter went stelth camping with her pal and pitched a tent on top of the roof of a 18th century church, they used a flat section of the roof covered in lead to get a comfortable spot, unfortunately they didn't realize that this church was still in use and got the fright of their lives when the bells began ringing very early the next morning. They had been using what they thought was a disused chimney pot as a toilet, unfortunately this chimney connected to the ministers changing room and they discovered a fireplace full of human solid waste inside the church. My daughter and hers pal had some explaining to do when the security arrived!
Ferguslie Park (where you were in Paisley) is going through a regeneration phase. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Saracen is nice inside. Rustic, but nice. Scotland is a great country with friendly people. We have our problems like every other country but we don’t let it get us down.
When an area is named after an Asiatic warlord you can expect a degree of Rough.
Absolutely 🏴
A "regeneration phase" for the third time in about 30 years.
C'mon mate, are ye serious? It didnae work the first or second time.
Feegie....ye can roll a shite in glitter......its still a shite.
@@BigBhoy67 Sad, but true.
What I love about Scotland is that it is full of Scots!!!
🤣
Fuckin too right 😂😂
Well, apart from Edinburghski. Hardly a Scot in it and more like Poland these days unfortunately
Nice Braveheart reference.
Is fuc come to Falkirk there mare foreigners than Scots all colours and yee cannie get into medical centres fur them
Glasgow is a great city. There are rough places in most cities and towns. Scotland is wonderful, beautiful country, made even better by the friendly people that make it what it is.
We’ll see how friendly it is on Sunday.
Paisley is NOT GLASGOW. STOP tarring my City with these shiteholes.
In the 80's I drove around on a quick tour of Scotland. Went up the west coast to Inverness then across to Elgin. Headed down to Perth past all the distilleries. The weather was superb! Even the locals were amazed at the weather! Picture postcard stuff ! I really enjoyed the trip and the people were fantastic! * I retired in Thailand.
A few days ago there was an ITN news report on YT about British families with primary school age children, and with working parents, that were living in hotel rooms, that were arranged by local councils (there's tens of thousands of families living like this) and one family were even living in a tent in Stoke. All because of the lack of housing in their areas, and high rents now. So it is enraging to see good quality family houses., with gardens, like those in that 'scheme' all boarded up and being left to rot.
This is one thing I’m strongly opposed to with English culture. In most countries housing is treat as a basic human right. But, driven by our corrupt government, in U.K. housing is treat as a business. This is disgusting and astronomical English house prices reflect the damage that’s been done through this approach. Complete inequality as you highlighted
😂😂😂 English families surely
@@conkadonk4976 I don't see what's so funny about children being homeless and living in hotel rooms.
@@njpringle England voted for this
@@njpringle 😆 🤣 😂
Visiting Scotland as a budding teenager, I got this weird sensation when I was there. Like I was on a vacation for the entirety of my life and I was returning home for the first time in ages. Scotland is majestic. Someday I will return.
Wot were u smokin lol
Want to take my place?
@@ryancorroll4667spice probably
Absolute poverty porn, two clueless guides, completrly inaccurate information throughout. Why cluelessly walk through yet another working-class area in the city without having any clue about what you're seeing and presenting? Or without highlighting the efforts people in these communities are going to to try and turn their and their communities' lives around despite a government that doesn't help and doesn't care. Filming individual people's houses (my gran's is one of them) and talking about working-class people in the areas they call home like they're exhibits in a museum for middle-class people's wonder and enjoyment, all so that you can profit from their poverty. Come on.
Have you done any of that? Filmed the local community doing good work?
I wouldn't really call Possilpark rough, so much as poor- the area's been on its arse since the foundry closed in the late 60s and has never been properly reinvested in. It's a hell of a shame but you see similar stories in villages throughout the central belt here. Glad you liked the haggis at least!
There is a lot of history to that part of Glasgow, sadly the industrial history is disappearing without any memory left. The Saracen Steel Plant is now totally demolished without a museum or anything like it in its memory. Sad.
Agree so many schemes in Scotland working class areas are poor inc many Past ex mining villages around parts of Scotland and UK poor WITH working mens clubs now closed down and once were very busy places before the mining strikes ..and then closures and then yon Maggie Thatcher fk , as she messed up Scotlands working class areas.. as many had moved on once jobs became scarce in Scotland
Maggie Thatcher she it was began the poll tax in Scotland before any other part of the UK
And she went against her own words as she had said not one part of UK shall be treated any differently to another this before she then used Scotland for the poll tax and Scotland was used as a Guinnea pig for the UK with this Poll tax ..one yr before any other part of UK .
And her telling working class people if u cant find work in your own region then move away to another part of the UK and look and find work and some like myself did and just were messed about .
Anyhow now check are the many 2nd hand shops nowadays although so many them also closed down and so boarded up windows its way its been sadly . much more poorer areas than not in Scotland i think though many are getting done up better part by part but like many schemes in Glasgow all posh now eh
should be more so all over UK though inc the Capital Edinburgh can do with much more moneys put into housing for working classes .
U wouldnt call possilpark rough what planet u on 😂😂
@@Grailz1😂😂 he's not been held hostage on the landing very much 😂 morning made
No rough even the pigeons carry up among the twt twt 😂
The best thing about the Schemes was how nice Shannon wore those jeans, and she was the only smart one to put on a jumper. Can't wait to visit Scotland. My family came from the Black Isle.
These definitely aren’t the worst places in Scotland far from it
Where are the worst places?
Everywhere from John o groats to the borders. Lol Scotland is in the sewers.
thats well racist @@roddymac998
I was born in Paisley but my family moved to London when I was 9mths old. However my gran and aunts and uncles all lived just outside Paisley and I spent many happy Summer holidays up there. I used to love Paisley and it did used to be a lively bustling town with a lot of history but like many towns, when industry is ripped out the heart of it (mills, factories etc) the community suffers. Sad seeing some parts of the town looking so run down and rough, but Scotland is a beautiful place and Scottish people are still some of the nicest people you will meet. 🏴
If you’re going to visit somewhere do your research beforehand and if you have tour guides try and make sure they actually know the area. Making assumptions of a place and its people is never a wise idea. Also Tennents is a lager not a beer, if your guides had even known Glasgow they could have shown you the brewery which is a 10 minute walk from the centre. I think you may have offended a number of Scots with this video, myself being one of them
I'm not Scottish but even I saw through a lot of this and was thinking this is cringey AF. That wasn't a rough estate, it was an empty estate.. The pub didn't do good beer, it sold Tennant's lager. Didn't see anything rough about what we saw so not sure what the point was..
As someone who grew up in the Rogaland area of Western Norway, Scotland looks so familiar, yet so exotic and foreign at the same time.
Whatever it is. Exotic it is not.
fried mars bars are exotic
I can very much assure you that this area of Scotland most certainly is not exotic. That would be the very last word I'd use to describe that area, as would anyone else who was born and has had the experience of living there!
When I use the word "exotic", what I basically mean is the stereotypical british architecture were the houses mostly are made of bricks, wich is very different from the wooden houses wich I'm used to here in Norway, at the same time, we don't have those type of castles on this side of the North Sea either. Even Danish and Swedish architecture can come of as exotic to me. Despite similar landscapes and climatic conditions, despite the fact that countries can be located so geographically close to each other, yet having such different styles of architecture, that's what I find fascinating.
How very dare you! We build out stone, not brick. Or we used to anyway. You do see a fair number number of post war wooden houses in the Highlands, funnily enough they were imported from Sweden
Paisley town centre isn't a scheme Ben you are filming next to historic Paisley Abbey lol, a scheme is known as a housing estate. The scheme you filmed was the old Ferguslie park near St.Mirren football ground which sadly is mainly empty on those streets. Great channel , I am sure these places are mild compared to the places you have visited all around the world lol.
I know Paisley is like a small city, it has some beautiful buildings and a very interesting history. They sold it short.
Thanks. Because I'd assumed I was looking a huge cooncil house with an enormous garden but was puzzled by the absence of abandoned sofa and broken toys.
Feegi black necks 🤣
I grew up on Murray St just down the road from Love St heard it’s all changed now
I love Scotland 🏴 too , im a trucker so end up in fairly ruff areas but never felt threatened, there are places in Ipswich were I live that I do feel dodgy in🏴☠️🏴 great vids
Thanks for showing us around Ben. Great videos bro. Cheers!!!😀🍺
Great video from beautiful Scotland 🤗Thanks a lot for sharing and take care 👍😁
Glad you enjoyed it 👍👏🏼
I think the windows are made of metal and grills to protect against vandalism or stealing ligthing and plumbing fixtures. Because if glass, very easy to enter, just smash the glass windows and doors. Been to Scotland seeing the city center and went to the huge Kelvingrove Gallery and Art Museum, I wasn't able to finish, like Louvre of Paris, so huge! It has nice exhibits like long swords during early centuries' kingdoms, armor wear for war, various kilts of clans, paintings, treasures, etc. Then went on tour to the Highlands, saw Loch Lomond; Three Sisters (mountain ranges) where Bond's film Skyfall was shot; Glencoe, went on cruise from Urquhart Castle to Lochness; Fort Williams, etc. Love Glasgow ❤
This is amazing, thanks Ben and everyone! I've always been fascinated about both Scotland and Ireland and really enjoyed seeing your visits over there. I grew up in England but with a Mum who was born in Northern Ireland (with a few distant relatives from Govan, Glasgow) and my Dad was from Edinburgh but coinsidentally had some distant Irish relatives too. I went to both places last year too and 100% agree wit you, the people seem so lovely and the places look amazing. For comparison, take a train into London and see how atrocious it is! When I visited both, I looked into houses and couldn't believe the amazing value compared to South England! Honestly for anyone house hunting in future and from anywhere near London, definitely check out Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - You'll be pleasantly shocked at what you can afford!
The flats & houses are boarded up to stop people going in, ripping out the pipe work & selling it to the scrappy, that’s what you’d now call a metal recycler. These empty properties are usually scheduled for demolition and new housing being put up. The scheme you’re in on Saracen Street is Possilpark, or ‘Pocil’. A ‘scheme’ is traditionally council house area in Scotland, they call them ‘estates’ when the houses are owner occupied, or ‘bought’ houses. You weren’t in a scheme in Paisley, you were in town, or up the toon. If you wanted to see a scheme in Paisley you’d have gone to somewhere like Ferguslie Park.
I was using the phonetic Pocil, like pencil, not Poss ill, to try to demonstrate to non Weegies how a Glaswegian might pronounce it. I recognise all the ways Glaswegians might refer to the scheme, I was more focussed on explaining how it sounded if you heard a Glaswegian like me say it, rather than the spelling of it, which can end up being misread as Poss ill and or Poss O.
I lived in possilpark and know Saracen street well. Yes it is rough and a shadow of its former self but there are a lot of decent older people who live there. Used to be bustling in the 1960s.
the older people were great, spoke to many
It was also where the majority of intricate ironworks where made and sold all over the UK. It was a boomtown back then
People make the best of it, a lot of businesses there, little government investment.
A scheme is a Council estate in England and a hood in America!!
Basically 👍
Ghetto,slum etc etc
Hoods are 10000x worse
@@aronjohns4662 Actually, they're not. My dad grew up in a neighborhood that was mostly Irish immigrants in Chicago. By the time I was a kid, the neighborhood had transitioned to mostly black and Puerto Rican families. My grandpa still lived there. It was what you would call a "hood" today. We visited every summer when he was alive, and never had any issues. Our car was never vandalized, the people were friendly, and we had no issues.
@@BackpackerBen 100%
A scheme is a Scottish version of a housing estate, not necessarily a rough area although a lot are. I grew up on one just outside Glesga and I'm all the better for it. Great vid mucker
Much men fun
Did you ever gie anybody a Glesga kiss Jimmy
Paisley is not in Glasgow, it's town on the outskirts of Glasgow.
Are these guys supposed to be informing people? At the beginning they say they are in Glasgow when they are standing in front of Paisley abbey. They don't know what a scheme is. They say they are going to the Highlands when they go to Loch Lomond and the central belt. They visit a castle and don't identify it! Geez, that's the point I gave up and went on FB! 😏
Beautiful country, alot of Scottish people.
Best 👏🏼🏴
I went to live in Glasgow and lived and worked as a Social worker in many areas of Glasgow and surrounds, never felt threatened or afraid despite having an English accent, the people there were the most friendly and their sense of humour cannot be beaten, I moved away 20 years ago and still miss being around the amazing people! Also been in the Saracen Bar with my best friend who grew up in Possilpark great evening!
Man, Glasgow really never disappoints.
Hi Ben! Great to see you in Glasgow, Scotland. I am pretty sure it has changed quite a lot since our Mum immigrated to the USA back in 1925!! That Haggis and Neeps looked really good there at the Cairndow Stagecoach Inn! I can actually get decent Haggis here in Thailand so I would have ordered the Cullen Skink instead! Warm regards again from the Allens in Ban Huai Sai Tai, Thailand!! 🐒🌴🐘🐒🐘🌴😄😄😄😎👍👍👍😉
Interesting! Thanks for watching 🌞 can’t beat haggis
That’s the romantic view of Scotland.
That estate with the houses boarded up look so peaceful and quiet.
Aye just great,go and try it out.
Liminal
Sorry this is full of errors yes a Scheme is simply an Estate they never said what Castle they were at they never said the name or location of the Haggis eating Pub what road they were on what Loch they were passing hopeless
the boarded up windows are the council forcing people out of their homes, when the council house become empty instead of rehousing people they leave them empty in order to bring the prices down for home owner who then get their home compulsory purchased with a price that they cannot afford to rebye anywhere as they bought their original council house cheaply, new houses are built but of course the people from the area cant afford them and very few are for rent
Welcome to Scotland!! Huge thanks to all those watching the UK series!! Anywhere you think I should visit next?? let us know
Albania
Show London I’ve heard it’s more dangerous than Toronto 😅
I’m going to vlog in London soon. Would be cool to see you there for a beer?
Can't get link to Allan's channel to work. 😔
Maui look at the state of affairs there for us old chap
Never been troubled in any council estate England or Scotland, have had many talks and gone into local pubs as I work up and down the country. I feel if you go to these places with good intention and actually get talking to people then you'll be fine, obviously always have your wits about you and take in the surroundings because being around people on drugs/drink situations can take a turn. But people shouldn't be out off going into these areas just because of reputation.
Be it more than ten years ago you can't walk freely in any estate your not known in especially for a younger
When you’re speaking about these two countries, it’s always Scotland first, then that shit hole down south second. Don’t ever forget that…🤷🏻♂️🏴
ive lived in council estates all my life and the only trouble ive seen is always related to drugs/ dealers
Spot on these areas are the best places to have a drink if you go there for a good time then you will have a great time but if you go there to take the piss then your in big trouble
Possilpark isn't in Glasgow city centre, it's a couple of miles out from the centre (shouldn't you have people from Glasgow showing you around who know their stuff? They even said they hardly ever come into the city and usually it's the centre!). And you only really see how rough 'Posso' is when it's at night! Used to live there. Dodgy, yes, but never had any bother, thankfully.
I could tell that estate in Paisley (which is not in Glasgow) was scheduled for demolition, just by looking around at the boarded up windows everywhere (is it really 'rough' if hardly anyone lives there?!). Usually you get one or two brave residents hanging on to eke the most amount of money out of the council (home owners).
As others are saying, 'scheme' doesn't have negative connotations, unless you're being judgey. It just means a council housing estate - typically away from the city centre and somewhat isolated from the rest of the city (at least, Easterhouse was originally like this, and debatably this caused a lot of the social issues there, and in schemes like it).
The Police used to call Paisley "Crazy K" which maybe speaks for its reputation (different areas in and around Glasgow were split into alphabetical letters - they probably still are).
If we're talking rough, some honourable mentions for me would be (at least, going by previous knowledge of these areas): Haghill, Blackhill, Milton, Easterhouse.
It really does look beautiful in Scotland.I would love to tour one of those old castles too.
I’ve seen some of the most beautiful scenery in Scotland. It’s unfair to say that England is shit, Lake District , Peak District not to name a few of some of the most beautiful places in England.
All banter mate chill. As an English you should know our dark sense of humour and sarcasm
I live in England and I agree it’s a right overpriced, overcrowded, claustrophobic shithole. I’m not afraid to admit it. Yeah I’ll give you the Lake District and Peak District but I definitely wouldn’t call it beautiful in a uniform sense because it isn’t. There’s not really much to see, and people are stupid enough to dip their hands deep into their pockets to live in relatively depressing surroundings for such a price tag
Gonna say man your content is really good i really enjoy watching it , and it's just a matter of time before you hit 1m
Thanks my man!
thats so crazy youtube suggested this video so just decided to watch it out the blue. Originally from glasgow and grew up down the road from Possil Park (portal park) as a kid wouldnt go near the place it was really crazy about 30 years ago. These days my dad is in a care home near it(nice care home) so I pass by that street once a week and my wife and I nearly every time make comment about how terrible 'The Saracen Bar' looks and how bad/rough it must be in side couldnt believe how different it was inside! small world really enjoyed that thank you.
Btw a scheme is simply another name for a housing project , Its a
" HOUSING SCHEME " regardless of the state of it 👍🏼
How can a town centre be a scheme ? It is surrounded by schemes. Also Paisley is not in Glasgow, you may say it basically is but there has to be a line in the sand somewhere.
Paisley, Ferguslie park what a place. About 30 odd year's ago the rot set in the jellybean came to town, and woosh..we had lift off and then it's just got worse, right enough most of the so called gangsters are dead, locked up, or on the smack and coke,...
Loved this video, the accents, lovely mountains!
Really glad that the actual Scottish ppl couldn’t tell him anything about anywhere. So basically they met up with this guy and drove round areas laughing at the poorer classes . Classy.
Middle-class Safari Ride.
I think you literally picked the worst two scottish ‘guides’ to show you around. According to them every town is a scheme…was a difficult watch.
Great Video Ben, I recommend Limerick in Ireland, some very nice 'Schemes' , plenty of historic sites and a fabulous city, as a Londoner living here the past 20 years I love the place, I live 20 minutes from the city in County Clare, Home of Father Ted and the Cliffs of Moher and so much more, if you ever get the chance to visit you will not regret it.
lol can just see ben going round southill or moyross lol
Great to see you on the north coast of N.I. The weather looked superb at the Mussenden Temple. Next time visit the Giants Causeway, carrack-a-rede rope bridge and the old Bushmills distillery.
Paisley is not Glasgow, it is a separate town. 20 years ago, you would never have been able to walk around Ferguslie Park freely, it has changed, for the better. Stay away from the junkies, they will not hesitate to rob you, lucky police were present & watching them.
I'm from Barrhead which is next to Paisley, I've lived in London for 25 years so can't really comment on what things are like up there today but Scotland and in particular Glasgow has some of THE best clubs in the world and the longest running house music club in the world which is the Sub Club on Jamaica St Glasgow, if you are still there go on Saturday night and you'll have a night to remember.
You are not in Glasgow You kept saying it.. Paisley is its own town. Its like saying welcome to London this area is called Brighton........
Mate it’s like 7 minutes from Glasgow centre 😆
This series has been your best in a while!!!!!
Thank you!!
This was one of my favorite episodes 👏🏽
I don't know if the meaning has changed but when I was growing up a scheme in Scotland was a housing estate. Hence the term, 'schemie'. Maybe it's different now.
As kids growing up we would often fight with other schemes & we knew which ones to avoid unless team handed part of growing up .
It's a council estate, isn't it? Ben's local guides seem to have given him a bit of a bum steer.
Nah it’s no changed mate. Scheme is still a council estate
@@Paul-dv4drThey really didn't have a clue and should be embarrassed by their ignorance
I love Scotland Edinburgh and Inverness are my go to Scotland gems
Glad you enjoyed Belfast, Ben and thanks for showing the good bits 😉 Definitely great nightlife in the city centre these days.
Been all over the globe with you, this was more fun than any for me. Makes me want to ruin my liver in Scotland and Northern Ireland!
😆😆👍👍
If you think that, beauty-wise, "England is shit" and "there's nothing there" then you can't have seen much of it. It's one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Oh but I have
Have you seen the Yorkshire Dales, the North and South Downs, the Lake District, the beautiful villages and small towns of the Home counties, the Cotswolds, the Ridgeway, not to mention the beautiful architecture, ancient pubs and woodland? A quick glance on Google Earth shows that England is about 85% countryside, so there is plenty of beauty here.@@BackpackerBen
That girl who was showing you around is super cute
Glaswegians don't really say "slainte" either (Gaelic) - that's more of a Highlander thing, in my experience. More likely to hear "cheers mate", or something like it.
I love Scotland as its so beautiful and the Scots are warm and friendly.
i am glad you liked Scotland, shame we didnt see more of it, i have always felt safe there
I will return 💯
Lol I haven’t and I live here.
The one time when I didn't felt safe in Scotland was when I went to Glasgow and it was night time some foreigner I think eastern European or something like that had a fake printed out picture of a baby and tried to scam me out of my money and also tried to get me in a taxi.
As someone from Scotland, I love this 👏 so good seeing you go around the UK
Thanks for watching 😎🏴
Fm someone in Glasgow,can we swap
Quality video ma man. Nice wee mixture of the Bonnie... yAAs! 🤣
That “hello” at the start from the lady was soooo sweet.
Paisley, the biggest town in Scotland is definitely not a scheme of Glasgow.
Strongest accents ever the Scots but amazing people ❤ 🏴
My favourite place in uk 🇬🇧
@@BackpackerBenScotch lover
@@BackpackerBen there is no uk. You need a United people to have a United Kingdom and we are not United Scotland, looking for its independence proves that fact..🤷🏻♂️🏴
@@steviesbadtvwhatever moaner
Scotland said No get over it & the snp are finished 😭😘
The metal shutters are put in by the council to protect the houses and the windows. The first area looks like Gallowhill. It used to be a lovely place, my mum was born there. Paisley was a lovely city, the Abbey is really nice. Paisleys town centre died a death when they built all the out of town shopping centres, like Braehead. I can remember going shopping there when I was young with my aunt and it was always buzzing and a nice place to go out. The windy place was the Rest and Be Thankful. Lots of history there and a brilliant burger van right at the top!! Jim Clark used to race the hill climb up the rest.
Lovely people , we made a trek up there few years back to Balloch , Scotland’s got some beautiful country if your into walking , planning to head up further soon ! ✌️
Paisley is not Glasgow.
Aye it is
Paisley is not a "scheme" it is a large town almost getting city status because it has an Abbey and A University. Where the houses were boarded up, yes that's a "scheme". Why did they show you the nice parts of Paisley? It is not part of Glasgow. Possilpark is two miles from Glasgow City centre. Traditional Scottish breakfast is same as English inly with haggis and black pudding. That first castle was Inveraray Castle in Inveraray the seat of the Campbell Clan. Haggis is a healthy food. We're a beautiful country and people.
Nice parts of Paisley? Kinda my thoughts too, Paisley toon centre is indeed "nice" all greenery and sandstone. It's hardly Gaza.
Loving the content!
Great video man.. you don’t need to use a lot of words to capture the essence of a place. Great job from another TH-camr
He should have used more words to describe the reality and reasons behind it.
Thanks Ben. Me having Irish and Scottish heritage along with English and German - probably Viking as well - I enjoyed your video of Scotland and Ireland. It looked like more fun was to be had in Belfast. My Grandfather was from Lisnaskea which is not too far out of Belfast. I traveled to Lisnaskea on leave from the US Navy while we were at port in Portsmouth for some D day rememberance event. Our aircraft carrier was The USS Eisenhower. I said to myself, "I'm taking leave to Ireland!" It happened, by accident/fate, that I chose a guesthouse - just outside of Lisnaskea - that just happened to be on the land once owned by my grandfather's (Robinson) father's land. and my grandfather had been born right across the street. I landed right on the old sod. That ws a trip!
Ooooaft! Number one, mate - that's no Glesga, it's Paisley. Number two - Paisley isnae a scheme, that's the toon centre; however, it does hae schemes oan the ootskirts. Number three - the folk gien ye the tour urnae fae a scheme, but nae doobt a nice wee middle class area, sae therefore lack any information regarding schemes. Number four - hing aboot wi thae junkies fir another hoor an ah'll guarantee yir gettin smashed, plugged, an robbed. Number 5 - Thir boardit up because thir quite obviously empty, an the 'metal shields', as ye pit it, are ca'd sitex, which yir wee middle class pals clearly dinnae realize. Number six - ah cannae be daen wi swatchin the rest o yir video because thae two yir wi clearly dinnae hae a scooby whit thir oan aboot at a', an neither haes yirsel. Feenished!
I left Scotland a long time ago but I was still able to understand every word had to read some of it twice tho loved it I heard it in my head with my accent intact
Cheers Ben 👍 great video
Some areas of Glasgow are literal hellholes. I come from a wee village near Aberdeen and we had a youth Scottish cup game in Easterhouse against a team called Boscow Rangers. Every flat had a broken window or was boarded up, the football pitches were ash. First time I'd ever played football and grass wasn't involved.
First things first, a "Scheme" is a housing scheme, not as they say, a rough place, but generally the housing schemes can be rough areas, I dunno who the plonkers are who you picked up are but these places are not rough, just full of alchies, clueless.
Ben it is like the old joke. An Englishman a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a bar. They order three pints of Guinness in fly in three flies and land in their drinks. The Englishman is disgusted and walks away. The Scotsman pulls the fly out and drinks his Guinness. The Irishman pulls out the fly and yells spit me Guinness out you beetch.😊 listening to some of those Scots was like trying to understand Ozzy Osbourne.
Good old Ozzy. Poor bastard is so far gone, I’m shocked he’s still alive!
these places look like home. the weather, the food the people. lovely UK ❤
I grew up in Ferguslie Park and spent 18 years there. Our house used to stand in the gap @ 5:21 . Plenty of happy memories but also makes me sad to know how run down the place has become.
Great video Ben. Glad you took the couple a long to explore their country. Seemed they knew less about their neighborhoods and country than you did.😮😂 Nice couple though
I know, they were nice but clueless.
Lol...they were completely clueless.
Two Scots that don't know the meaning of "Scheme."😬
Enjoying this thanks ..I’m Scottish from Perth ,I think your friends there have got the definition of the scheme slightly wrong …a scheme in Scotland is the equivalent to a housing estate in England, …where i live now
I think a housing estate is all bought houses, a housing scheme is mainly council houses
@@brmc6145 could be maybe ,you have me thinking now 👍
I agree i come from England live in Glasgow , a scheme is a housing estate
I absolutely love Ireland! The people are so friendly and a great laugh and I have never had a bad experience there, except for the wet weather. I'd move there if I could.
I wouldnt trade Ireland for Scotland tbf
A "scheme" is another word for a housing estate, aka housing "scheme" it's basically any area with COUNCIL houses.
Furthermore, the decapitated Council houses that were boarded up are due to get knocked down no one lives there hence why there were no cars in the area . They were boarded up so no one could get in and use them as a doss house.
13:39 I've never scene someone so clueless about his own country as Ben. Scotland is Beautiful but England has the lake district, Yorkshire , the cotswolds etc. Sounds like hes been to Outer Mongolia but not the Pennines.
Lake District is stunning when the sun is shining, sadly it never is... 🤪
@@chrishancock1990 You could say the same about Scotland. I love scotland btw.
Ooooooooioooo
Rain 99% of the year
Overpriced
England has like 5 beauty spots
Nothing else and that’s a fact
Your in Paisley, that was a wild start to see - thats where i live! Gutted to have missed you id have loved to say hello! Paisley is like many towns in Scotland, it has some nice parts and some not so nice parts
I’d go back. Was a good place 🏴👌🏼
half of it is a dump, but generally everyone in it as as they say a good c*nt @@BackpackerBen
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Cheers mate ! 🍺👍🇨🇦, Thanks for sharing your liquor pig travels! Scotland is magic
Glad you enjoyed it mate!
The first housing estate you went through is ferguslie park where my dad grew up & where some of my family still live. The reason for the boarding up of windows with the metal is to stop anyone from breaking in and wrecking the properties.
Is the racecourse still there I remember school football games there I went to St James’s but that was a long time ago
I've never seen one with my own eyes but castles always blow me away. Someone used to live there and it's still standing!? Beautiful architecture.
Thats the Duke of Argyll’s hoose!
I live in Scotland and there are 5 castles within 10 minutes drive of my house. Never tire of seeing them.
@@BruceFraserJr Amazing!
I'm English and our elderly next door neighbour is Scots. I have (English) family who have moved up to Aberdeen and then Fair Isle. Met so many great Scots down the years. Warm and friendly people I'm glad we Engligh have next door!
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Are you talking to me pal?
Crosslands pub is one of the bars used in Train Spotting, it is where Begbie throws the pint pot and it is less than 4 minutes drive from the Saracen Bar. Oh and when I worked at Pickfords one of the guys got his ear bitten off in the Balmore Bar which is next to the Saracen.
The boat - The Vital Spark (12:43) was from a TV series called the tales of Para Handy - I saw this when on holiday in Scotland, near a jail, Inveraray if I'm thinking right!
The “ Spartan” at Irvine Maritime Museum is the only surviving Scottish built puffer in Scotland. I used to work on it as a tour guide. Just a piece of pointless info.👍🏻