U2Girl1978 said:
What's the life like there?
What place would you recommend visiting if I were to ever visit Scotland?
For such a small country there's so much to do and see. I can't suggest one single thing, it's all dependent on what you personally like. A good website is
http://www.visitscotland.com/
Originally posted by U2Girl1978
What's the weather like?
i've lifted this from a website that describes our weather perfectly:
"The Weather is a subject of constant discussion in Scotland and the UK generally. The fascination that the British have with their weather, and the reason it enters into almost every conversation, is its variability."
"At most times of the year it is perfectly possible to have glorious sunshine, chilling cold, together with wind, rain and even snow - all in the one day! This means people's lives can be driven by the weather alone; its often impossible to plan an outside event because of the risk of changeable weather."
This week I've been playing football in the park. The weather's been glorious. However, yesterday and today it's been raining all day.
Originally posted by U2Girl1978
What do you think of your president(?) Actually what is he/she called?
We are not a republic, we do not have a president. Our head of state is the Queen. Our Prime Minister is Tony Blair.
Scotland is one of the countries of the United Kingdom (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland). To simplfy things, for non-UK folk who can't get their heads around the four countries thing, you'd best think of the UK as four states rather than 4 countries. People from the US are often confused about the UK and mistakingly refer to the UK as 'England' when in fact England is only one of the four. This greatly upsets/annoys people from the other three countries/states when the UK is refered to as 'England'.
In 1999 Scotland was given a devolved government, The Scottish Executive, meaning Scotland can run many of it's own affairs independantly from the overall UK government based in London. We have a 'first minister' who is called Jack McConnell. After the first Scottish elections, the current goverment is a coalition between the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party. Scottish people vote in the UK elections and also for our Scottish parliament.
I do not have strong political beliefs....although I voted for Liberal Democrats in the last elections (Scottish and UK).