I am German and I am proud to say that my name is Elgin. I love the Scottish people. When this horrible Corona is over, I will come to visit this beautiful country
It really is such a gem of an area (and the surrounds!)... Planning on visiting again this year at some point! As a local, what other sights/areas would you recommend that the normal touristy places don't advertise? We like the touristy places, but we love the local 'secret' places
Great video bringing back memories. I lived in Elgin in the early 80s. At 0.56 I lived as a teenager in a house opposite the petrol station behind the man holding the child. Thanks for the vid.
@@theoosties8301 Thank you.. I am also vlogging the beautiful places in the UK. Let me know if you visit again Elgin.. Nice to see here that our town is being featured.
@@theoosties8301 I've lived in 3 states and visited 10 more and yes it is wonderful I can't recommend Colorado and Mississippi enough but THANK YOU on being the first poster to respond to my comment!
hmm your at the petrol station 5 mins away from my old house in elgin, I lived down at the T junktion where the trafics lights are. Cooper pond is actually a victorian ice skatting pond and NO the library is not a castle nor does it look like one. Elgin Castle sits high upon ladys hill near the city centre and yes Elgin is indead a CITY. sorry Oostie but your info on the Cathedral is totally Wrong! Elgin Cathedral was destroyed by the Bastard Son of the Scottish king and the Bishop got a small army and laid seige and destroyed the Bastard son of the king's own castle on the loch island to which the ruins still sit. also the catherdral was also ransacked many times in its life and it was back in the late 18th centuary that the cathedral was ended as a city dumping grounds by the locals back then and was cleared up and also a lot of the stone was robbed by the locals to use in the construction of their homes and much of the houses in elgin near the hospital still bear the stollen brickwork which is intresting to see that some of the cathedral get a 2nd lease on life. Elgin city was defended by a large thick wall surrounding all of the city and the city was devided into 3 sections and paid tax's to the king of scotland and each section was deemed a Burough,the cathedral sites in the elgin cathedral burough and each section of the 3 buroughs had its own gate and just over the foot bridge behind the library is the elgin cathedral burough gate hidden by the vines and bush's beside the road at the flats. @8:22 that monument is forever an eyesight we all wish would dissapear! no one likes it.just below the ground near that fountain is the original seriffs Dungeon as that are was an active graveyeard and shopfront for trading and the victorians later converted it into a public toilet and later in ww2 it was then converted into a bunker and since the fire in the records building in cooper park by vandals the council has renovated the dungeon/toilet/bunker and converted it into the new storage place for the citys records. the graveyard was removed to make way for the road they council built around the church and in the 80's the road was ripped up and when they ruipped up the road they descovered to their horror that the bodies from the graveyard were never actually removed only the gravestones and since then the bodies were removed to a new consicrated place and the current slabs were placed also the dirt and flowers were removed from the old fountain and the fountain was restored back to working order. the city still has a fully functioning nunery to which one or 2 nuns are only permitted to go outside of the grounds of the nunery but once in a while the nuns open up to the public. last i remember the scottish nuns went to another country and some nuns from usa came over for a while. anyways if you had actually walked to the end of the street towards the roundabout where the castle sits proudly above the area you would have seen the monument and historical plauqe of the bastard son of the king and the destruction of the catherdral.
I am German and I am proud to say that my name is Elgin. I love the Scottish people. When this horrible Corona is over, I will come to visit this beautiful country
I'm so happy you came and enjoyed Elgin. There are many more sights and areas to visit here so you're welcome back anytime.
It really is such a gem of an area (and the surrounds!)... Planning on visiting again this year at some point! As a local, what other sights/areas would you recommend that the normal touristy places don't advertise? We like the touristy places, but we love the local 'secret' places
Great vlog, I love Elgin! 👍🏽
Great video bringing back memories. I lived in Elgin in the early 80s. At 0.56 I lived as a teenager in a house opposite the petrol station behind the man holding the child. Thanks for the vid.
Beautiful place!! Will hopefully go there again one day!! Glad you enjoyed the vid!
Go around Millbuies Loch if you get a chance , you might even see a dogman if you're unlucky .
thanks for this, taking me back, i went here. every1 in this town was very nice
Beautiful!!😎😎🤗🤗😻😻
Thank you! 😊
Glad that you enjoy your Elgin hols. There are still nice place to go in Elgin and I am from Elgin.
We missed so much! It is a gorgeous place and we are excited to visit again next year. You really do live in a beautiful part of the UK!
@@theoosties8301 Thank you.. I am also vlogging the beautiful places in the UK. Let me know if you visit again Elgin.. Nice to see here that our town is being featured.
As an American I'm jealous, I wish I could visit the town of my family's namesake.
When borders open up again, go for it! It's a great little town! As for now, America is a seriously big place to explore as well 😉
@@theoosties8301 I've lived in 3 states and visited 10 more and yes it is wonderful I can't recommend Colorado and Mississippi enough but THANK YOU on being the first poster to respond to my comment!
We are in Elgin! 👋🏻...lovely video x
@@theoosties8301 City as it has Cathedral and Castle and still has some of its 1300 defensive City Walls still standing.
hmm your at the petrol station 5 mins away from my old house in elgin, I lived down at the T junktion where the trafics lights are. Cooper pond is actually a victorian ice skatting pond and NO the library is not a castle nor does it look like one. Elgin Castle sits high upon ladys hill near the city centre and yes Elgin is indead a CITY. sorry Oostie but your info on the Cathedral is totally Wrong! Elgin Cathedral was destroyed by the Bastard Son of the Scottish king and the Bishop got a small army and laid seige and destroyed the Bastard son of the king's own castle on the loch island to which the ruins still sit. also the catherdral was also ransacked many times in its life and it was back in the late 18th centuary that the cathedral was ended as a city dumping grounds by the locals back then and was cleared up and also a lot of the stone was robbed by the locals to use in the construction of their homes and much of the houses in elgin near the hospital still bear the stollen brickwork which is intresting to see that some of the cathedral get a 2nd lease on life. Elgin city was defended by a large thick wall surrounding all of the city and the city was devided into 3 sections and paid tax's to the king of scotland and each section was deemed a Burough,the cathedral sites in the elgin cathedral burough and each section of the 3 buroughs had its own gate and just over the foot bridge behind the library is the elgin cathedral burough gate hidden by the vines and bush's beside the road at the flats. @8:22 that monument is forever an eyesight we all wish would dissapear! no one likes it.just below the ground near that fountain is the original seriffs Dungeon as that are was an active graveyeard and shopfront for trading and the victorians later converted it into a public toilet and later in ww2 it was then converted into a bunker and since the fire in the records building in cooper park by vandals the council has renovated the dungeon/toilet/bunker and converted it into the new storage place for the citys records. the graveyard was removed to make way for the road they council built around the church and in the 80's the road was ripped up and when they ruipped up the road they descovered to their horror that the bodies from the graveyard were never actually removed only the gravestones and since then the bodies were removed to a new consicrated place and the current slabs were placed also the dirt and flowers were removed from the old fountain and the fountain was restored back to working order. the city still has a fully functioning nunery to which one or 2 nuns are only permitted to go outside of the grounds of the nunery but once in a while the nuns open up to the public. last i remember the scottish nuns went to another country and some nuns from usa came over for a while. anyways if you had actually walked to the end of the street towards the roundabout where the castle sits proudly above the area you would have seen the monument and historical plauqe of the bastard son of the king and the destruction of the catherdral.
I couldnt have done a betyer job myself, its sad that they have taken away the buccaneer now
@@pyrodude6320 wait what? the planes gone from the petrol station on the lossiemouth road from Elgin?
Eu olhando as fotos desse lugar e agora vendo o video tenho mais certeza que esse lugar é deprimente....
Não curti ñ....
What about gay. You have done this . Boring