There’s definitely a presence there I feel, and like you say, very peaceful 🤙

Thanks Jay, much appreciated buddy 😀🤙

Hello. Thank you for the message. You would be absolutely fine climbing a Munro, it’s just that I tend to walk fast and make it a harder challenge for myself. They are hard work for anyone, but if you pace yourself, it’s very manageable. I think dying doing something you love would be the best way to go buddy 🤙

No, it’s nearer to Dunfermline and the Kelpies. Glad you enjoyed Dunkeld. Great biking paths throughout Aviemore, I recommend that. Dunrobin Castle I’ve visited about 6 times, it is beautiful. For me, Glencoe is one of the most beautiful places in the World, lots to do up there.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 oh right, thanks, will bear in mind, thought it might be near this village, as pics looked similar and it’s also an Outlander filming location. Yeah, do trails on the Gorms regularly, weather permitting it’s Sgòr Goaith, near Glen Feshie, (start bike hike in Badenoch) this weekend. Not sure we’ll go though, hearing reports that the trails are really wet and super muddy. Plus half the enjoyment is the hike up and the reward of the view from the top, where you see Loch Einich and glorious views in every direction. One of our biking buddies went Monday, and was so cloudy and raining so heavily, all he got to see after his hike was clouds, clouds and some more clouds! So maybe we’ll sit this weekend out, just hope if we do I won’t be forced to watch any football!! (I will be forced to watch football - think I’d rather do the hike in torrential rain and slide on my butt through the mud to the bottom!!) Completely agree on Glen Coe, apart from Saville Cottage, which although lovely and in beautiful spot, just makes me boke every time I see it.

Thank you David 🤙

Interesting thought Mark. I also think that with such a small population in Britain, the Neolithic communities would be wide spread and not necessarily in the same location. As the population grew over thousands of years and ever more land was being claimed and cleared, this would have caused dispute and perhaps violence going forward.

Thank you Buddy. Yes very much so, hopefully they do it justice buddy 🤙

These places are believed to be monuments of some kind Evelyn, expressing either their beliefs or making a statement on the landscape.

Morning Patrick. Why a larch?

😆😆, very possible buddy 😀🤙

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Aye...gadgies. Lol.

@@allybally0021 pure GED’s ged 😀🤙

Good morning. The end of March should be fine, usually the weather is improving dramatically by that date in Scotland. I agree, Michael Kamens soundtrack is equally important to the movie Highlander as Queens.

Hi Faith. Thank you for your message. I’m glad you enjoyed it and found it interesting. January is a good month for it, very atmospheric with the low light and cold weather. Wrap up warm and enjoy your adventure 🙂

Very interesting place buddy.

Hi Boba. Yes it’s heartbreaking news. Many die on Glencoe’s mountains each year, it’s not a place to be taken lightly or without precaution. I can’t imagine the circumstances in which the father and son died, it’s so very sad.

Thanks Martin. Glad you enjoyed it and found it interesting 🤙

The word, or the use of the word predates Christianity. A holy site was understood long before the Church came along.

Only because your religion has decided that's it's the only one and decided that your god was the only one despite acknowledging in the bible that there were other gods.

@@juliaforsyth8332 The other 'gods' are referred to with a small 'g' precisely because they're not gods but products of man-made, human idolatry, precisely because they are carved out of wood or cast in metals, "They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see. They have ears but cannot hear, and noses but cannot smell. They have hands but cannot feel, and feet but cannot walk, and throats but cannot make a sound. And those who make idols (gods) are just like them, as are all who trust in them." (Ps.115:5-8). Baal is a reference to satan. There is only one capitalized reference to God, precisely because he is the only God - there is no other. Consider yourself schooled. You're welcome.

Thank you Avalon. Glad you enjoyed it 😀

Morning. I’m really glad you enjoy my content. It was a great wee adventure and the weather was glorious. Appreciate your compliment 🤙

You’re very welcome buddy. I hope you and your son have many great adventures together 😀

Good morning. As you can see in the video, I was very excited to have found the location. In the movie, you see Ramirez go towards the island, but the following scene wasn’t necessarily filmed there, turns out, it was. That was one of my favourite finds in my series of films dedicated to Highlander.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 good work. I’m looking forward to watching part 3

Morning Scrib. I have no idea, but glad you enjoyed the video 🤙

Good morning Jeff. Thank you for your message and compliment. Scotland must be quite the culture shock coming from Texas? I often wonder how Americans view Scotland when they come on holiday. Totally agree, when you walk those streets in Culross, it’s easy to feel transported back in time, even if it is just in the imagination.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 I looked and looked but could find any Mexican food LOL -- but the haggis rocked !!! Cheers !

@@jeffhallum 😆. I’m glad you enjoyed the Haggis buddy. Have a great day 🤙

Thank you for your message. How fascinating, if only old Tjikko could speak, imagine the stories it could tell. Very interesting message 🤙

Glad you liked it Louise 😀

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Rosslyn Chapel would be amazing too thanks for the vid 💎🙏

@@louisep5178 hi Louise. I’ve been to Rosslyn, it’s simply stunning inside, however, the movie the DaVinci code made it look huge 😀. Have you been yourself? I’ve been thinking of doing a video on Rosslyn.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Thanks for your reply it is somewhere I have always wanted to visit because of the fascinating history and symbolism there but there is not a train station near to travel up from London so would love to see a vid of it if you ever go there 🙏💎

@@louisep5178 well you’ve convinced me to go back and make a video about this mysterious place. I was there a few months back, it truly is breathtaking when you go inside, I can’t recommend enough.

Thank you Ian. Have you watched the other two Highlander locations video on my page?

@mackieoutdoors9410 Not yet buy I will. Just found your channel yesterday but look forward to seeing your work

Hello. In the video I show the pegs that indicate the original circumference of the tree. Over the centuries the trunk has disappeared leaving only the remanent’s that you see in the video.

They’re on the essendy road in Blairgowrie. Yes you can take dogs there.

Thanks so much. Appreciated. 👍

@@Fleurbunny hope you have a great time and the weathers good.

Thank you for the message and I’m glad it brought back pleasant memories for you.

Good morning. You might now have the history, but you do have a beautiful country that’s creating its own history as we speak. Do you know where your ancestors come from before moving to Australia?

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Was about four when my parents' immigrated with me and my brother in tow pound poms , my bloodline is first born a somewhat bitch at times, know where my ancestor's once walked ? guess I may just do thanks for the reply .

Good morning. It’s been a good while since I made that video and did the research on it. If i remember rightly some dendrochronologists believe it’s 5,000 years old but there’s some contention by others that it might be 9,000 years old. I guess the difficulty is that most of the tree is gone, and what’s left makes it hard to give a definite age.

Hi Louisa, how are you? Yes it’s literally breath taking to consider how long it has been there. Makes you wonder who has visited it over the centuries.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Hi. I'm ok thanks. How are you? Yes, I always wonder what changes trees have seen. A short lived tree such as a birch only lives about 70 years whereas a walnut tree just starts to produce fruit at about that age. I would have loved to see the magnificent oak and beech that covered a lot of Scotland before it was all clear felled for boat building etc. In comparison we're like a midgie or a mayfly.

@@Lousialee-hm3gu good morning, I’m good thanks. I didn’t know birch only lived around 70 years. Apparently at one time, from the tip of Scotland to the very south of England, you could have walked from branch to branch on trees and never touch the ground, that’s how populated with trees Britain was. In Scotland there’s a determined effort to re-plant only native trees in places like the woodland trust land. I’m guessing that thinking can only go back so far into the past, as Britain has been through so many changes over millions of years, including tropical.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 Good morning. Yes Scotland used to be covered in mature trees such as oak,beech etc as well as the other native trees. It would be amazing to walk amongst such trees (providing you knew you were going to be safe from wolves, bear, wild boar.)

Is that what it says? 😆🤙

Yes they were indeed. It makes sense what you were saying about them growing in churchyards and allowing coppicing and not the destruction of the tree. I imagine the people using the Yew from these trees in a churchyard, also believed they had divine power due to where they were growing. It’s fun to speculate Henry.

Well I don’t know about well protected, we can only hope that such places don’t get vandalised Kathy. The tree at Sycamore gap was cut down by vandals recently, I can’t imagine the thinking of people like that.

Thank you for the compliment and I’m glad you enjoyed the video. You’re absolutely right, I think it would be a rare thing for a church to have not been built on a pre-existing spiritual site. I talk about this in my other video ‘Dunino Den’ which is believed to have been a pagan site long before Christianity came along. When Christianity appeared in Britain, it was important to incorporate established spiritual sites with the new faith. By doing this and incorporating parts of the old faith into the new, respecting the old faith and its followers, they knew that eventually, over the centuries, Christianity would prevail and the pagan ways would be forgotten. Of course, as we now know, paganism has not been forgotten, but Christianity has flourished, for the most part, in its place.

Thank you, very much appreciated and I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀

Thank you Andy, much appreciated ☺️

Hi Wilson. Thank you, I’m really glad you enjoyed it 😀

Thank you Joyce, feel free to use it to get to sleep 😆. I’m really glad you enjoyed the video 😀

It’s funny, I only wild camp miles away from where I actually live 😆. There’s plenty camping spots right there where your going.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 thanks, hoping this grotty rain goes away or we’ll sleep in the van, I’m sure we’ll find somewhere pretty and peaceful. Thanks. You’re lucky to live so close!

@@Fleurbunny I prefer the Highlands, but then again, Perthshire is on my doorstep and easy for me to access.

@@mackieoutdoors9410 yeah, well I do love living in the Highlands. But Perthshire is stunning. Hopefully we’ll start getting down that way more. But although husband is a long time mountain biker, I’m not as experienced. Just got e-bikes, I’m hoping that may help me keep up so I can try new trails rather than our usual Cairngorms, and Aonach Mor, not that I don’t love them! Dunkeld Circuit will be my first time down there. It’s shameful really!!