Edinburgh Dungeons "bans" English visitors or much ado about nothing

In revenge for slaughter of Scots in the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, the Edinburgh Dungeons yesterday “banned” English tourists from visiting their popular attraction. The English visitors were supposed to be allowed entry only after signing a scroll swearing allegiance to Scotland.

And then came uproar of ‘national discrimination’ over ‘something that happened 700 years ago and people nowadays cannot be responsible for’.

As it turned out, the Edinburgh Dungeons did not ban anyone, instead they asked people to swear their allegiance to William Wallace, whoever refused was then threatened by Wallace-a-like into doing so. Some signed, many refused.

Honestly, why so little people see the positive side of it? It was a laugh, a history lesson made easy, a PR stunt. Cheer up people :D

picture: kbolino

Know your Cairngorms from your Argyll

The VisitScotland website visitors were puzzled when trying to figure out the mountain showed on the photograph in the Perfect Day promotional competition. The photograph was labelled Aviemore and the Cairngorms and showed trees outlined by a mist with snowy peaks towering above them. As it turned out, the snap was taken at Loch Tulla, just outside Bridge of Orchy, not in the Cairngorms.

Dr Watson, Cairngorm ecology expert, said: "It just obviously wasn't in the Cairngorms. I know these hills very well, I've been going there since I was a boy and I wrote the Scottish Mountaineering Club's district guide to the Cairngorms. It definitely wasn't the Cairngorms.

"Anyone can make a mistake but it's surprising that a body like that would not find it easy to find good photographs of the Cairngorms."

VisitScotland described the gaffe as an "honest mistake", caused by agency provided the image and is now looking to improve their process of image selection.

Resource: BBC News