Scottish History Road Trip to Glenelg and Skye Original
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- Scottish history tour guide takes you on a road trip from Fort William to Glenelg and the Isle of Skye with history along the way.
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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The bit about former pm David Cameron 😂
The quality of the filming was great. Scotland is so beautiful. I always look forward to your videos. Thank you for your efforts to promote Scotland.
Our pleasure!
Our pleasure!
The only reason I don't make that journey when going to Skye is the road on the Skye side. It's very narrow and full of potholes.
@@chubbygallasso It's a tricky road alright, but if you take the time to see the beautiful vista's you have plenty of time to deal with both potholes and passing traffic.
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The Canadian Highland Brigade also did their training at the Commando school and the coastline at Tioram Castle during WW2
I am from the Taylor sept of the Cameron Clan. I just made my first visit to Scotland last week. I spread my gmas ashes at the silver sands of morar!
One of my favourite places to visit, visited the museum several times and the area itself is absolutely gorgeous and such a wonderful drive, and just further down the road is the Eas Chia-Aig falls. Would always highly recommend visiting the museum and then the falls if anyones in the area, and if you get the chance you should visit the Commandos Memorial, it’s rather beautiful.
The Glenelg ferry has to be one of the worlds most adorable ferries! My wife and daughter and I took it in 1984 en route to Skye. It drops you off at the end of a single-track asphalt road through sheep pastures. Half the time it took to drive to Broadford was waiting for large flocks to clear the road. We were thoroughly enchanted and we treasure the memory to this day. Last I heard even though the ferry has been taken over by Cal-Mac, the daughter of the old ferryman still runs the boat itself. I hope this is true.
Another belter of a history lesson Bruce. Keep up the good work.
Thank you kindly
I read somewhere that Cameron translates to crooked nose... Which seems appropriate seeing as my father, brother and I all have deviated septum. Awesome to see where my family came from! My wife and I are saving for a trip to Scotland (from New Zealand) so i'll definitely add this to the list of places to visit!
Yay
I love your videos. This one was particularly special for me. My grandfather was a commando in WW2 and trained at Achnacarry. Towering giants of men is such an apt description. You have such a way with words and I thank you for the respect you’ve paid to these great men.
There is an old oak tree on the achnacarry estate ..little known .but is believed to be the oldest and possibly.largrest in Scotland
From Scotland, but grew up in Canada. Was lucky enough to go back home often, and married the Canuck husband over there (his first time being there). The highlands is absolutely one of the most gorgeous, soul healing places I've ever been. Hub soaked up the mountain biking, I soaked up being back home.
I'm doing live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Amazing! I will be at a NS one, and hopefully we can have a wee dram. eta: Bus Stop 🍺
My grandmother grew up in Glenelg, Ontario, obviously named after the one in Scotland. Her MacArthur descendants were from Skye, which makes this video very special to me. Thank you for a glimpse into my past!
I found myself smiling all through this video..I'm 48 and I'm still amazed at the beautiful places and scenery we have practically on our doorstep...thank you once again bruce for sharing your wonderful adventure and stories with us all...iv been housebound for quite a few years now due to health and mobility problems so watching your video's is like a breath of fresh air to me ❤ oh and I must mention that I was telling my daughter about you and your brilliant channel,only for her to inform me that you were one of her teachers at St Columba's High school 😂..she was a bit of a tearaway haha her name is Nicola Smith, she said you were a fantastic teacher (so funny) and you used to sign her level 5 sheet saying she was good (even if she wasn't) ..tis a small world indeed ❤😂
😂😂Ah the old teaching days
Absolutely blown away today Mr Fummey...my son Andrew comes in for a visit with his auld maw and he key's ye tae..your nephew Prince is one of his best pal's 😂😂.. iv met him a few times over the years and my son speaks very highly of your sister...I can't believe how Iv only came across your channel recently..kid's eh, xxx next time you talk to Prince please tell him I'm asking for him and hope he's doing well 💙
I did this trip in reverse 20 years ago . It was the most memorable part of my UK trip by far.
Thank you Bruce and Crew. You know I love ferry's and to end with a ferry was so cool. Oh, I also truly love the bronze age houses. Say Hello to the family for me
Absolutely brilliant!!!! Thank you BRUCE
Glad you enjoyed it
An other excellent video I feel a road trip coming on.🏴
Have fun!
Great content again. Your content always make me proud of where my mum came from and I grateful to you for that. I had a Scottish mum and a half German half English dad born in Yorkshire so always felt pulled apart
Good stuff
It will be good to see the highlands wooded again as it was centuries ago Brucie.
That was lovely. My son and his family have just returned from Skye. They loved it and will return. 🌞
Wonderful!
Stunningly beautiful! Thanks Bruce 🏴💜
Glad you enjoyed it
Just done one from Inverness to Skye, but used the bridge. The Five Sisters were wreathed in tears when I passed them.
Glenelg is a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia and it's also a palendrome.
I've been to the beach at Glenelg
Wonderful, wonderful Scotland brought to life so wonderfully.
My great uncle was a pt instructor there training the men for.war and stayed and now we got lots of family in Fort William Inverness I've been there myself and 3 commandos memorial where he is named he was stationed there from England start of the 2 world war and stayed in the beautiful Highlands from Somerset for rest of his life but did come back cause he missed the levels and his family on occasions
I was in Ft. William in 1995 when attached to US Navy Special Warfare Unit 2. Also visited the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge.
Good Morning Bruce! Good to see you!
Afternoon
1:27 "You'll take a left hand fork and at the end of the fork you'll get some history and beautiful scenery all rolled into one."
1:33 And ice cream Bruce! You forgot to mention the ice cream! Why would ya leave out that part?
OK, ice cream 🤤
Another excellent video so informative. I just love the way your promoting the place I call home
I just watched a movie about the Commandos the other day! That's really an amazing statue for them 😊
Gorgeous!
Another great video Bruce, as always. I find myself looking forward to Saturday morning just to see what good lil piece of history you got for us today. Thanks & have a great week. See ya next weekend...
Thanks 👍
By the way it was a pleasure to meet you at dunfermline Abbey the Connolly family. tapadh leat
Yaaaay
Good watchin as usual bruv.
Focus!
A museum specifically for Clan Cameronn! Even if it is the Locheils and not the Errachts. Now that's something, As both a Cameron and a Jacobite Stewart I applaud Your videos Bruce they keep getting better and better. Between You and Shaun One gets a unique view of Scotland. I hope to meet you One day Bruce, as I briefly met Shaun and his wife on the beach at Itapema here in Brazil. Tell him it was Robert the Kiwi fellow, He probably sees my Handle and not my real name.and doesn't remembered. 👍👍
You may see him before I so. He's over there a bit isn't he?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours He and his wife had some challenges getting here due to that Covid thingy. As I'm now back in London (Londrina) in The middle of nowhere. It's over 800 km to get back down to Santa Catarina. As I said previously Londrina was Founded by a Scotsman Arthur Thomas in 1937.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours By the way your video from last week on the covenant drownings, was extremely courageous and well done, and a topic close to my heart.
I was in Scotland in June… I was looking for you. You would’ve been the perfect guide for all the places I went. Some of the places I went were your suggestions , thank you.. What a wonderful place to go. I hold a dear place in my heart for Scotland, I have visited three times now. If I had one wish , it would be to live there. ❤
Brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it
Please keep up this great work. Looking forward to the Dunfermline show....
The Commando memorial is one of my favourite spots to stop and play my pipes, just as long as I can cope with the midges! 😂
The Glenelg ferry I think was the one that was in use to cross Loch Leven before they built the Ballchulish Bridge. It's what my dad used to use when he travelled up to the area as we have family in Kinlochleven - a fascinating place in itself with history around the Blackwater Dam and an old POW camp to name a couple. Would be cool to use the same ferry as he did many, many years ago when he was younger.
These are fantastic videos, keep up the excellent work and hope to catch you on tour.
11:47 Unique to the North West Highlands and The Northern Isles - there are only a handful south of the Great Glen. After nearly two centuries of study what is known about them for certain can be (and has been) put on a single page of a paperback.
wow!!!
The name Commandos was give to them by Churchill himself whom fought in the South African Boer war, against the Boerre Kommando, and had such respect fir their abilities to inflict great losses fighting in small groups, he used the name for the Commando how would act similar years later
Thinking of taking a trip back home to Scotland next year. If I do, it'll be the first time in a LONG time that' I've been home.
Very nice to see and learn.
Thank you Bruce, always a treat.
❤
You are very welcome
Thank you for a video of one of my favorite places. I’m from US and have visited GlenElg 3 times so far. Food at the Inn was wonderful too🥰
Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic video
Thanks! 😃
How about an episode about Strachur and Strathlachlan. Interesting area - Sir Fitzroy McLean and Castle Lachlan's misfortunes after the '45.
Not far away is the Holy Loch, another interesting location during WW2 and later with Polaris. Nearby Loch Striven where the X craft trained.
HLsailor = Holy Loch Sailor I had the pleasure of being stationed at "The Loch" for years. One of my sons was born in Dunoon Hospital.
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much!
Il try get to shoe in skye in September that's my bday lol
Bruce, you should bring your show to the states, especially to Western North Carolina where many a Scot settled because the mountains so reminded them of home. If you do, I’ll buy you a coffee personally.
Who knows, maybe when it feels safer
I enjoyed this trip very much excellent views and info
Glad you enjoyed it
I was hoping you'd visit the bothy, spent a week up there whilst at uni. Absolutely loved it and made some fantastic memories.
Thanks!
Thank you so much
I smoked some Afghani Black ( courtesy of A'dam )… on the shores of Ness. Unfortunately the Monster did not1 appear. 1990.
Hi Bruce my great uncle died on 3rd Sept 1942 training with the commandos he had served with lancaster police previously my grandad was devasted thankyou for featuring the commandos my nan who was a lees married a Cameron on the death of my grandad regards Robert Lees
Went up the tiny winding heart attack road to Glen Elg in 2018. Loved Dun Trodden and Dun Telve, the Brochs, and the coffee house restaurant as well. Recommend it. Don't rent a big car if you"re an American driver, though. The roads are narrow and winding in many lovely hilly places in Scotland, like this one!
Hey Bruce, nice meeting you on Garry bridge the other week.
Video coming out soon
The only reason I avoid the Glenelg ferry is the road on the Skye side. It's so narrow with few passing places and full of potholes.
A'reyt Bruce. A beautiful location that reminds me of holidays as a kid, along those roads in a car with caravan in tow. I picked Alan Breck Stewart as my childhood hero, but can no longer stand caravans.
I commented before about how there seemed to be many English Tories with Scottish names. There would be plenty of folk here in Yorkshire ready to fetch a few back if you are running out?
"A truly magical place". I've described Skye that way so many times it feels a cliché coming out of my mouth but, I don't apologize because quite simply It Is!
The "Avatar" to the left is at the base of "The Thumb" at Storr....my happy place.
Aye Bruce, ta see ye agin would be great. But it seems I must abide here for want of the fare. Have a wonderful tour mate, and if yer ever back in Cairns, remember yer grans bedroom...they are still serving at the bar.
😂 I'm sure I'll be back
this route, including the staircase, and a ferry to skye, were on our plans for september 2022. sadly, we didn't make it, and our plans may be different in 2024.
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Love your channel, Bruce (& your humor!)Just to set things right,
women commandos also trained
& had to succeed in the same training rigors as the men
-one of them was later executed in France by the Nazis.
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Ahoy !
Lovely video. For overseas viewers, we've been having quite a showery July here in Scotland this year and so it was a tonic to see you got some good weather on your trip. Brought back some good memories of a previous visit up that way and found myself digging out an old photograph of myself standing at roughly the same spot overlooking Loch Loyne (when I was there in 2016, there were loads of 'mini-cairns' dotted around - are these still there?). It's inspired me to go back again, especially to see a broch (or two) 'in person' which I've never actually done.
It's a bony bit
My mother lived in Gleneg............in Australia
Been there
Lock, Loch, Good thing I came from the Ohio River Valley where we have locks, but not lochs!
Must be where our Glenelg is named from in south Australia
Of course
Where you doing a tour on a wee bus at Port Edgar, south Queensferry last week?
No
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Bruce,
when will you return to Brisbane Australia?????
Dear Bruce could you talk about the Dubh Gaels and the Gallowglass pleeez
I'd need to do some research
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Thank you.
They have ice cream. 🎉🎉🎉
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Everywhere in Scotland looks like a damn Bob Ross painting
Now I need to find out who Bob Ross is
Bob Ross had a tv series “joy of painting” running for many years. It’s occasionally repeated on terrestrial tv in the UK. He would paint 1 picture per episode.
He served in the US Army (IIRC) in Korea, and we think most of his work has echos of that scenery.
Typical scene is a small stream set in a treed valley with snow capped mountains and a few “happy little clouds”.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours just one of the best people to have ever lived! That might be hyperbolic, but I don’t care. His show was so relaxing.
10:50 -- First time I have to do this to you. I can't understand what you are saying, here. What is the name of this barracks?
I wish you could have gone closer and given us an exterior tour of there. It still looks worthy of a visit.
The ponit is to give you a taste so that you can go to Bernera Barracks for yourself
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Wonderful. Thank You, sir.
Bruce how many movies have you starred in?
🤣🤣 None I'm afraid
@@ScotlandHistoryTours the lost king?
Nice idea, but I don't think a minor bit part counts as 'starring in'
@@ScotlandHistoryTours awww i do pal all about your chosen subject on history lol thank you for your educational videos makes my day, i started watching the in lockdown 1.0 lol
They beach are birch
OMG are you taking bookings
I run a bespoke private tour guide service if that's what you mean
Nice trip, anyway.
Sometimes, in life, you just have to stop and take à deep breath. Smell every rose, wherever you find her.
Newfoundland, Canada, also shàres a same geological history. So far away from me.
Those smooth-talking Irishmen. Was that the Cornwallis who blew it in America?
Yes
I'm going to the clan gathering on Skye next year. Nixon/MacNeacail 🦾 You be around Bruce?
Unlikely I'd say
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well, I'd like to shake your hand, and thank ya in person one day.