Scotland has always conjured up images of kilts, bagpipes, Braveheart, whiskey and Sean Connery. However, it seems that I was a stranger to perhaps the most important Scottish icon, the National dish - 'Haggis, neeps and tatties'. Not for the faint hearted, haggis' basic ingredients include sheep offal (heart, liver, lungs) and a range of spices traditionally boiled in the sheep's stomach and served with neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes). A delicious meal I found! Another surprise for me was that the men here really do wear kilts, even as they go about the most mundane of tasks like fishing, supermarket shopping, waiting in line for the ATM and let me tell you - it is not a pretty sight! My journey around Scotland was on the jump on/jump off Macbackpacker bus - run by a
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