ADVICE FOR THE TRAVELER: CALEDONIA

Scotland is a very modern place. They have electricity, hot and cold running water (that comes out of a tap), automobiles, and suppositories. Quite up to date. You do NOT need immunizations to go. And you won't get scurvy.

Well, you are not likely to get scurvy. Although British people, including the Scots, hardly ever touch fruits and vegetables, other than canned peas and beans, and the idea of nutritious food may have escaped them.

You don't need to bring matches to build fires so you can stay warm.



Modern plumbing was a late arrival in most of Northern Europe, but soap IS available in the larger cities.

If some birth-defected native, all stunted, bent, and red-headed, tries to offer you pots of gold, you had best refuse. Oh wait, that's Ireland.

Do not refuse the canned peas and beans; these might be the only vegetables you will see for several weeks. Except for leeks and oatmeal, which often crop up in the strangest concoctions.

You'll need suppositories to cope with that.



One the whole it's rather like Pennsylvania.
Except much more civilized.
Better pizza.


Watch out for highway men.




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