Your girlfriend has a very nice disposition, always cheerful.

I was born in Montrose at Charleton Maternity Hospital. We lived in Christies Lane, moving on the Brechin City and the eventually to Bury in Lancashire where my Dad had been stationed during a small part of the War. This is where he met my Mum. We frequently went there for holidays when I was a kid and up to my twenties. This brings back so many happy memories and your right it hasn't changed too much over the years. Thanks so much for doing this video. It was great to hear and see places I know and remember. I love Montrose and I am proud to be Scottish. I am not well enough to get back now so this video was great. Keep well and safe. James.

I‘m so happy that you featured Bamse in this Video. In early April of 2022 I was planning to visit North Cape in the very north of Norway. When I arrived in Honningsvag, the last village before North Cape (located on 71 degrees north) the road up to North cape was closed due to snow and ⛈️. I traveled 2500 km to get there and the last 30 km were closed😢. But as so often when travelling, the real magic happens when things don‘t go to plan. I discovered a statue of a St. Bernhards Dog in this little village at the end (or beginning) of Europe and wanted to find out more about it. So I learned that there is also another statue of Bamse in Montrose and now you showed it to me. thank you so much, Steve. After learning about Bamse (and visiting the northernmost supermarket in Europe and buying dried cod) I wasn‘t disappointed anymore not to reach North Cape.

Hi Alicija and Steve thanks for all your videos. My wife and I really enjoy all your adventures. We spent a month in Scotland last year and fell in love with the land and people. We spent 18 days this past May and going back in October for another 24 days. We are getting too old to rough it, so we enjoy the variety of B&Bs and inns. We have been re-visiting your videos and taking good notes. This trip will start in Islay to visit our favorite smokey whiskies. Then to Oban working our way north to the west side of the NC500. We plan three days from Kyle to Thurso and then take the ferry to Orkney staying for a few days. Once back on the mainland, work our way south to Inverness and then along the east coast to Aberdeen. Never been to Aberdeen so it will be interesting to explore. We then head south to Edinburgh on the coast road and stop in Montrose to see your lovely town. After three days in Edinburgh, we wind up in Glasgow for our flight back home to California. Again, thanks for your videos and keep up the good work.

Hi from Adelaide, South Australia. I’ve just discovered your channel and have been bingeing your Scottish videos. Our 2020 UK trip was postponed and I’ve been taking the time to plan our travels in more detail as we both plan to explore the towns and cities of our Scottish ancestors . Love your blend of history, scenery and services.

I grew up in Edinburgh as a kid, moving to outside Montrose as a teenager. I love visiting both now but for very different reasons. In many ways, I've come to appreciate Montrose more having left it some time ago in search of employment! It's a much overlooked town with stunning scenery just beyond it. You'll no doubt be posting vids of St Cyrus beach in its many moods and stunning sunrises. The wildlife centre overlooking Montrose basin is utterly addictive. Then there's the Angus glens, the Grampians and over to the Cairngorms. It's also surprisingly well connected for a small town. Few of my friends believe me in that you can board a train in Montrose and never get off until London (if that's your thing). The East coast line through Montrose, both north and south as some of the best seascape scenery you can experience from a train. Good luck to you both and enjoy that space.

We've recently found your channel, absolutely love it and have subscribed. If we were fifty years younger we'd be doing all the tripping like you two do. So now we'll live vicariously thru your channe!. Walk on!

Thanks Steve, you make it easy to realize just how wonderful Montrose is!! It's a Cool Place, even if it's hot out! I'm from across the pond, Long Island, NY, US but love Scotland. Castles, Whisky, Bag Pipes, what's not to love! Hope to make it there someday. Your videos are Great, I enjoy the bits of humor you put in. Congrats on the move, a good one for sure!

my wife and i were looking for a place in scotland for our honeymoon. we stuck a pin in a map and luckily it chose montrose.. we stayed at the george hotel and had the most amazing week. would love to visit again sometime.

Also, the Royal Arch was used as a coffee house/meeting rooms by French Mariners in the 1800s, and gifted the plaque to Montrose to put above the facade. It has a lot of Masonic imagery and symbols on it, and is a listed monument. Was very recently restored to its former glory.

Great video Steve and an inspiration to everyone that no matter how much you roam it’s always worth taking time to appreciate the place you call home.

Used to go to Montrose links caravan site when I was younger with my folks, loved it! Used to be a sit down cafe in the green pavilion and an amusement arcade just across the road before the road layout was changed up there. Good times! Thanks for the memories Steve!👍😊👏👏👏

Congratulations on the move guys! Hope it all comes good! Best for the future 🥳

The Minesweeper statue is affectionately known locally as “The Mannie” (we actually have three of them, the very same statue, one by the beach, one in the high street and one by the harbour beside the Bamse Statue)

Outstanding! Enjoyed the tour.

Another great adventure Steve. Enjoyed it as usual mate.

Congrats on the move! I am so happy for you both. It looks like a very nice town.

That look on Steve’s face at 8:40 - 8:48 after that “zinger” from Alicja. Even with the shades on that look was priceless…😂👍. A fantastic video overall, I’ve been watching your recent videos and now I’m going back through the catalog of vids. Great insight, keep up the good work both of you.

Thanks guys 😊👍❤️

Thanks Steve what a awsome peaceful town . Lovely place to live excellent video with information and history. keep it up.

My hometown! I now live on the West Coast but still go back regularly to visit family. Montrose was a lovely town to grow up in and is a friendly community. Lovely seeing familiar sights. I spent many weekends at Lunan Bay and St.Cyrus beach and often walk to Scurdiness when home. Great video. Thanks for showing Montrose in such a positive light. I recommend Charelton Farm in Hillside for a meal/coffee.

In 2018 I joined my brother and his wife in Edinburgh for a trip to Shetland. The train to Aberdeen must have taken us by Montrose. At any rate it was an incredible travel experience that I hope to take again! Thanks for the video!

Thanks to you both for a fantastic video. I look forward to seeing more of Montrose and its Environs.

You guys made the right choice, what a fantastic place to live, plus it looks like a good jumping off point for more adventures, I'm gonna cry with envy now!

I’m from Glasgow and my grandad owns a house in Montrose , came up every summer of my life, feel a close connection to the town and plan on moving one day. amazing video , really enjoyed it and also learned some stuff I didnt know 👌🏻 . Also I believe is very haunted 😱 place is steeped in history

I never knew Montrose had such an active harbour or such a beautiful beach! I hope you get settled in quickly to your new base.

Fantastic video, as ever Steve. I hope you are still enjoying your Montrose home.

A great video as always and congrats on finding your happy place in Montrose. Excited to learn more about the area. Thanks for sharing!

A toast to you both on your new home town 🥂. It's so pleasant to get away from a city and into a small seaside community especially with the tranquillity and space. Provided there is a chippy and a few pubs 👌👍😃. Look forward to more enjoyable tours from that area of the country. Enjoy it 😇

Steve, what an absolutely brilliant video! In one fell swoop you have put your new home town on many folks’ “to visit” list, so it’s your own fault if those beaches fill up! 😁 Good work! 👍

What fond memories you've brought back.. lived there for a year or so. Moved to Arboth. Very nice quiet, beauty full and scenic town. Thanks for this video

My mum and her sisters spent some of their childhood in Gourdon during ww2 and loved to go back their afterwards. Inverbervie, Gourdon and of course Stonehaven always worth a visit as i know you know. The Grampian area is full of castles, and so many lesser known ones like Gight, Glenbuchat, Towie Barclay. I could go on but so many. There is so much to discover in the Angus area as well. Live across the pond but love the history as well as the coast. Love your videos!

I really enjoy your videos! I’m a yank married to a Scot, I know, and travel all over Scotland. You have made it far easier and more informed for me. I owe you a pint.

Can’t wait for the “5 minute beach walk video” in 6 months to show the contrasting seasons, 60mph north easterly winds and horizontal snow. Good to see they’ve modernised the buses.

Great to see something of Montrose. It was one of the east coast places the train passed through on the way up to Aberdeen in my childhood and to the Shetland ferry when we lived there. So thank so much for giving us a tour. It looks lovely, and I hope you are both happy in your new home.

Montrose is a beautiful historic town. Thanks for sharing your new home with us.

Some parts of Edinburgh are remarkably rural and quiet, I live 10 minutes from the foot of the pentlands and can go for miles and hardly see a soul, fantastic scenery and well. Then 20 minutes the other way and youre at the high street and can't move for tourists, Brilliant 😄

Congratulations on your new home guys! Montrose was a place we did not get on our travels but it looks lovely! Alecia looked like a little kid running on the beach! Will have to do a bit of research on the place looks like WW2 impacted it greatly, can’t imagine how terrifying to be living there then! Will have a Smithwicks in your honor tonight! ❤

Love watching all that beautiful scenery Steve,, can't wait for the next season walk around. Thanks to you both,, cheers Julie, South Australia 🇦🇺 💕

Cheer's Steve, Love the honest ferry reviews and Bonnie Scotland - life's for living, enjoy your travels.

Congratulations to you both no doubt you will have a better life and a lot more fresh air. It will be excellent and exciting exploring the montrose area. A lovely walking tour and thanks for showing us around Beth and Simon 🙋❤️👍

Here in Adelaide, South Australia, no summer is complete without a couple or 3 groups of 3 to 5 days of 40+, occasionally peaking around 45. The 25 you mentioned is more like our spring and autumn. Humidity is low, so it's liveable. Love your work mate. You come across as the good bloke you obviously are.

What a beautiful little town! Congrats on your move. I wish you two all the best in your new home!

I just finished your tour of your new hometown Montrose and I had to comment how much I enjoyed it. Your warm narration, fantastic camerawork and impeccable editing make for a truly marvelous video. But above all else, I really love your bits of humor. I always laugh out loud. The topper in this video was the gravestone of the time traveler. Your efforts are truly appreciated. I think you are quite a gem. Thank you!

congratulation's on your move, I think a lot of people have been reevaluating where they live after lockdowns, your new town looks really nice.

Lived in Montrose as a kid 1978-1980. Have many happy memories of riding my purple Raleigh Chopper from Borrowfield where we lived down to the beach and all around town, really. I loved playing in those sand dunes. Took my mum back for some nostalgia in May and we did some of the same walk you did. It’s lovely down by the beach and golf course - some beautiful homes and so peaceful. Saw both my old schools: Borrowfield Primary and Montrose Academy. The high street was a bit sad and shabby though - mum was saying there were lots of nice shops when we lived there. Now just charity shops and pound shops mainly. No criticism of Montrose - it’s been the fate of many town centres (you should see the state of Paisley’s where I live now!). You’re right, Greggs was the highlight. We went into the Market Arms for a drink too! My mum was reminiscing of course and told me my wee brother went fishing in Ferryden one day and rode his bike all the way home to Borrowfield because he needed a pee! 😂 I think you made a great choice - over all Montrose is a nice town in a beautiful setting. I remember saying to mum, I could live here again. I hope you’ll both be very happy there. 🙂

Im very glad for you two for moving to such a great place. Cheers for the vid.

I can certainly see the appeal of your new digs, thanks to this well-edited video! Good seeing the dynamic duo together once again.

Oh how exciting for you both - and wonderful for us too because you're going to be able to take us to lots of new places. Though I love Scotland dearly, it's mostly the west coast and the Hebrides whose geography I am familiar with - and I had no idea where Montrose was!! You are so lucky to be able to up sticks. It looks a great place, and you both look so happy. Alicja, I too couldn't hardly breathe outdoors when we had those ridiculous temperatures - the air was such poor quality, I didn't even want to be outside in the shade.

I live in Florida. 25c would be a typical wintertime high here. Congratulations on your new town. I believe village life is superior to big city living. You can always hop a train for a weekend in the city if you miss it. Cheers!

stepping back in time for sure ! intresting place

Best wishes to you both in your new adventures. May you, and your channel continue to prosper!

So you’ve escaped the city! Good for you both. Montrose looks like a bonny wee town. I’ve travelled past it many times on the train but never stopped to check it out. Think I need to put it on my must do list. Scotland’s East Coast tends to be ignored by many in favour of the West Coast and Highlands. It’s a stunning part of the country and deserves to be more widely known.

Good move for you both, I always loved spending time in this lovely town, always felt warm and at home there. I had two holidays in my youth at the camping site near the beach. Had a midnight swim in the old swimming pool back in ‘68 which you got a certificate for! Check out the lovely grave yard called something like “Sleepyhollow” just north of the basin at Tayock, there was a caravan site there which I stayed in way back and just happened to walk around the grave yard as a 16 year old. It obviously made an impression on me then - I’m not strange 😂😂 Cheers both 👍

Thank . Superb video. Have to visit

What a fantastic place. Good move. What a lovely wee lass you travel with

Beautiful place,it does Scotland proud. Lovely beach arching it's way into the distance.old buildings crying out to be restored as a hotel os youth hostel,A steam train to bring the past back too life. So much potential and so beautiful aswell.

Hi Steve, First of all welcome to Montrose and I'm sure you'll enjoy living here. I noticed a couple of things while watching your video that I thought I'd mention to you. While you were walking towards the Bamse statue just beside the shopping trolley you passed a brown bench shaped like the bow of a boat. That bench was fabricated and welded by myself and my boss and was made in memory of a local guy who worked at the harbour all his life until he sadly passed away. Also on top of the library building there is a weather vane which was refurbished by my myself and my boss back in 2019 I think it was as part of the library upgrade works. So it was good to watch your video and remind me of the history of this place. Maybe some day you should take a trip up Edzell way to a place called The Rocks of Solitude and then head into Glen Esk and have a walk to Loch Lee. The peace and quiet there is fantastic and excellent scenery too. There's so much I could tell you about Montrose as I'm sure plenty others can tell you too. Oh and I'm a born and bred Gable Endie so if I can help with anything just let me know.

Awwww. Love the story of Bamsi

Fantastic video, thanks guys. We are looking to relocate to Montrose and this has totally inspired us to keep following our dream. Sending good wishes to you both and a hug to Bamse!🐾❤️🐾

Great Move Steve, I’m originally from Stonehaven, folks living in nearby Johnshaven. So much to explore in and around Montrose. Ideally located for cities, beaches, and nearby Glens (Glen Esk and Glen Clova). I’m still finding little closes in Montrose even after all these years of walking around the town.

Wise move getting out of Edinburgh!

Huge congratulations to both of you on your new home. As always you look so happy together, such a lovely couple. Montrose looks a wonderful wee place and the beach is amazing , I look forward to seeing more of the surrounding area as I dont know much about that coastline ... thank you Steve and Alicja 😃😃

Wishing you both the very best of luck in your new hometown hope it all goes great now & take care 👍👍

Oh, what a lovely village! It's so good to begin a new adventure, in a new place. I am so happy for you both. I believe I would be living on the beach all summer. Do you remember the song, "Running in Circles"? I still play that a lot. Merry Ann from Minnesota

Hi guys, congrats on the move, looks like a beautiful & relaxing town, I’m assuming the move fits in with your jobs/ employment? Greetings from Adelaide, South Australia, we are having a cold winter averaging 12/13 at the moment, summer however averages in the mid to high 30’s and we normally get bursts of 40+ degree days. Loving your channel, found you this week after being in ISO, keep up the great work, Pete.

Great video again Steve. Enjoy your new home.

What a lovely video of the “new town” boy have you two fallen on your feet. Can tell by the ear to ear grins that this is a life changing move. Congrats. Be safe and stay happy. C

Monstrose looks lovely!

Loved the wee tour and ending bit struck me, as I have great respect for military members (several in family that have passed on). Steve, I dinnae know you had been in the air branch. Relaxing song at the end there too. Cheers from Canada pal!

Thanks for that and good luck to you both in your new home

What a big change from Edinburgh. Lots of Elbow Room there. Love the beach! The best beaches are the clear beaches that nobody else is on, if you can find them. Congratulations for finding your new home. Be well, stay safe, travel lots, love from Yexas.

Always enjoy thhese videos with full information onn where yo are in beautiful Scotland. Keep at it Steve and wish you all the best from South Wales

Looks fantastic - here's wishing you both much happiness in Montrose, your new home.

Congratulations on your move, Montrose is such a beautiful place so I'm sure you'll both be very happy there. Looking forward to some new Angus and Aberdeenshire content too. Best wishes.

What a lovely new place to live. What a good choice! Two days ago it was 39 deg C with a heat index of 43 deg C in Nebraska and we're a long way from a beach. 🌞

Really enjoyed having a wee look round your 'new home town'.😎😁

Another beautiful place 🤗

Thank you for sharing this lovely walk through your new home town Steve & Alijca. I know what you mean about living in Edinburgh Steve, even more so this time of year. We used to live in the city centre but moved out with years ago ( now in East Lothian). Wishing you both all the very best wishes in your new home xx

Excellent, really enjoyed that. We came up from Edinburgh 8 years ago and live near Montrose. Beautiful area to live with lots to see and explore.

Great summary of Montrose. The air station is a fabulous place to visit. Hope to see future videos of the Arbroath Cliff Trail between Arbroath and Auchmithie (also kayaking opportunities) and the South Esk Trail between Montrose and Glen Doll. Lots of interesting things to see in the Angus Glens.

I love your videos Steve and Alicija

Looks great.

Living in Manchester, i have heard of Montrose for many years now, but have never actually got to see anything of the town until I came across your excellent video .... very entertaining, and you packed a fair bit in there ..... i'm a big football fan too, and your visit to the Montrose ground was a real bonus, well done!

Congratulations on your move! It looks beautiful! Enjoy!

I always feel I am friends with everybody posting on your videos!!!

What a lovely place to move to, Steve! Looking forward to seeing more! 😀

Thanks for the interesting video 👍 We're moving to Montrose in June (24) and really looking forward to our new adventure!

I've been sick in bed the past few days and have been watching your channel non-stop. I live outside of Chicago, IL USA. Well done! You have made my illness a bit more bearable. Thanks for that.

Wishing you both the very best in your new home town, by the looks of it.. it's absolutely stunning well done.

Both musuems are wondeful we loved Air museum lots of history behind it. Many Thanks for sharing and showing this video.

Fabulous ❤

Been following your excellent videos for a while now and lo and behold, you've moved to my hometown Montrose! You really did the town justice in this video and even had a plug for the Mighty Mo! Hope you enjoy staying here, just don't tell too many people about it! 😀

Another great video Steve Montrose looks a lovely wee place cheers to use both.🍺🍺👍

Great video Steve....love your new little home town....it looks really nice...more slowed down way of life I imagine....great beach there too...that's a plus on hot days. Hopefully you get more space for your money in a flat there also which is always nice. We've had a heat wave here also in Massachusetts.....5 days straight over 30C & very high humidity...feels like you're in a steam bath just going out the door....thank God for A/C at home!!

Terrific video…..the best to you both in your new home. Beautiful area. Stay well you two. 👍😉

Good video, interesting, love Museums

Loved the video Steve and I hope that you both enjoy your new home

Hi Steve, We are fom Berlin on Holidays in Pitlochry. We follow your Videos and like them very very much. Four days bevor we visit beautiful Montrose, a great place to live. Thanks for your Videos and all the best. Christian and Julia

Congrats on the new location. 👏 Really like your videos. I learn a lot about Scotland. Montrose looks perfect. Be well and stay safe. 🙏