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dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 18:47	Looks like a mobile library as well as bus.
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 19:25	An -unique for Scotland- single track road, see the typical signs in the background. @dsl: surely you already have noticed the marvellous, EU-sponsored mutation of an origin single track road going northbound from Portree? One of the too many locations, you can find everywhere in the EU-Europe, where you only can shake your heads about wasted tax money -OUR tax money- In fact a small road going around the Trotternish peninsula Link to "en.wikipedia.org" , only used by a few locals plus some tourists - but some parts are enlarged nearly in motorway-size. But only partly and only for a few hundred meters each segment...
dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 19:45	ingo wrote everywhere in the EU-Europe, where you only can shake your heads about wasted tax money -OUR tax money- This is about the only thing where I ever agreed with Mad Maggie - why should UK be expected to write open cheques every year as charitable donations to subsidise European expenditure on its own self interests? And especially when some countries are so ungrateful for our generosity and begrudge even a small portion returning to UK for improving infrastructure? And the depressing prospect for Scotland is that if we break clear of a UK system which does not really give a monkey's whatnots about Scotland, our only direction seems to be into a worse situation of dependency on Europe.
Sandie ◊ 2012-07-19 19:48	But the scenery beside the road is nice. I like driving on that kind of road. The fact that so few people use it can only be an advantage.
3asv6 ◊ 2012-07-19 19:57	SMT bodied Bedford VAS mailbus http://www.flickr.com/photos/guy_arab_uf/6812960707/ Link to "www.google.com.hk" -- Last edit: 2012-07-19 19:58:09
dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 20:01	NS 5451 is 63 plate.
dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 20:19	ingo wrote .... but some parts are enlarged nearly in motorway-size. But only partly and only for a few hundred metres each segment... That's enough for us to get past foreign tourists (no names, but we know which country I'm talking about, and it's not Belgium this time) dawdling at 15 mph as they look for Nessie in every loch or puddle as they meander along, or who weave about as if drunk as they wrestle with steering motorhomes which they can't handle properly (same country ....).
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 20:31	dsl wrote That's enough for us to get past foreign tourists ... dawdling at 15 mph as they look for Nessie in every loch or puddle as they meander along cough http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/440/img1499oa.jpg/
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 20:39	Anyways, worth to mention is this location beside this specific road with an interesting, but totally forgotten history:
jcb ◊ 2012-07-19 21:00	Must be awfully lonely this monster , and old , swanning round in the loch on its own for hundreds of years !! -- Last edit: 2012-07-19 21:01:15
dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 21:05	Link to "canmore.rcahms.gov.uk" has more info. And to avoid confusion this conversation is about Skye from ingo's picture link in the 2nd comment - the bus is mainland Scotland en route to a small village in central Sutherland.
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 21:07	dsl wrote This is about the only thing where I ever agreed with Mad Maggie ... And especially when some countries are so ungrateful for our generosity ... Err, it was a very very short timeframe between entering and the handbag-stroke "I want my money back!" with the resulting unreasonably and still valid discount Dimensions away from the money, we Germans have bleeded. Since March 1957 and not just from 1973 to the Maggie-era. O.k., the advantages are notably. No import taxes any more. Marmite, Surströmming, Kriek lambic, Morris Marina, FSO Syrena, everything, which makes the life livable can be purchased paperwork-free all around the EU.
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 21:10	dsl wrote And to avoid confusion this conversation is about Skye from ingo's picture link in the 2nd comment - the bus is mainland Scotland en route to a small village in central Sutherland. Ah yes, sorry. Here's the correct bus, resp.the correct loaction: /vehicle.php?id=517328
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-19 21:12	JCB wrote Must be awfully lonely this monster , and old , swanning round in the loch on its own for hundreds of years !! An all the mingers, goggling into the home every day...
dsl ◊ 2012-07-19 22:13	ingo wrote we Germans have bleeded. Since March 1957 and not just from 1973 to the Maggie-era. So do something about it (or get your leaders to). Moaning about Britain not being willing to accept being cynically exploited as a piggy-bank only makes it more likely that we'll eventually leave and you have to pay more of the bill. Or disentangle the EU so that it reduces to a level of actually bringing benefits instead of just demanding more and more resources and control to keep itself fed.
chicomarx ◊ 2012-07-20 01:02	Scotland has oil so it will be more prosperous on its own, despite Europe. I think now Scotland's wealth is redistributed to the poorer regions in the UK.
dsl ◊ 2012-07-20 01:32	for ingo - your search is over
Sandie ◊ 2012-07-20 02:10
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-20 12:45	dsl wrote for ingo - your search is over Oouugh, are you nuts? This place is way too dangerous for the cuddly little Nessie Think about, what's a few meters left: http://www.fotomanisch.de/photo/images/20110714195512_20110524009.jpg ! At home it's always best:
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-20 12:52	dsl wrote only makes it more likely that we'll eventually leave and you have to pay more of the bill. Do you mean with the "we'll ... leave" in this sentence the Brits or the Scots? As it was to read in an interview of the SNP-party leader, in 2014 Scotland will vote about leaving - but leaving the UK, not the EU! And that Scotland maybe will enter the €-Zone. Because from the EU more money can be expected, than the UK is pushing to the North right now. -- Last edit: 2012-07-20 12:53:30
Ingo ◊ 2012-07-20 13:05	dsl wrote So do something about it (or get your leaders to). Mmmhhh, my personal opinion is a bit stricter. Even stricter than our Iron Angie is acting right now (although I've never voted for here, is the more right than the others IMO). For me the hardcore, really colonialistic way would be fine: paying money is o.k., but the giver has extensive, at least only rights to decide, what shall happen with it. I wouldn't give a sh*t about national or regional feelings - anyone, who wants my money, has to make, what I want. In Germany it's a saying: "The fellow, who pays the band, decides, what music will be played"
dsl ◊ 2012-07-20 13:33	"we'll ... leave" was the UK as a whole. The Scottish vote in 2014 is unlikely on current debate to give a clear break from rest of UK - London government and political parties are doing their best to ensure that the Scots are scared into voting against independence by predicting disaster ("Scotland needs lots of UK subsidies to survive and will go bankrupt without them") and insisting it has to be a total break off if independence is pursued. What the Scottish mood probably wants is a much greater degree of self determination for its own future, but still as part of a UK confederation with many shared arrangements, a voting option which London is trying to prevent. This raises 2 questions (1) why won't London allow the Scots to express their actual opinion instead of forcing the question into dramatic scary choices? and (2) if Scotland is such a subsidy sponge and drain on the UK economy, why is London so determined to force us to stay?
dsl ◊ 2012-07-20 13:42	ingo wrote Oouugh, are you nuts? I'll let you know after my weekly appointment this afternoon with my http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE .
jcb ◊ 2012-07-20 15:35	The unusual rear of this bus . -- Last edit: 2012-07-20 15:36:29

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