'Outlander' Star Sam Heughan's Personal Guide To Scotland | Going Places | Condé Nast Traveler

hello there I'm Sam hewan and today I'm going to be taking you all around Bonnie Scotland [Music] whilst traveling in Scotland you might hear garlic or indeed even some old Scots but here's some slang that we use day to day this is a beautiful word I like this word stravig or if you are doing this you are still vegan one of my favorite bars in Glasgow is called straw vegan it means to wander or to go for a stroll normally in the hour before Sunset you know the golden hour this is an easy one Ken now not everyone in Scotland has called Ken but you'll hear it said a lot it's actually to know so I I again yes yes I know you can ah really good a sassenack what is assassinak used to be a long time ago a word for an English person from here it was a derogative term for an English person it is now being used partly due to my show Outlander it's a term of endearment but it basically means an outsider someone not from these parts Old Ricky that's Edinburgh I think probably because it was a smelly old place they didn't have toilets in the old days so they would literally throw it out the window and as they threw it out the window you're you're whatever you've done in the bathroom you'd shout Garden Lou which is basically watch your head after a whiskey tasting you're probably feeling like you need a bit of scran you're a bit hungry you want some food you're scrawn oh this is definitely what to do after your whiskey tasting and then you've had your scram you're then gonna go lie in your scratcher your bed it might be hard to get you out of it these are good in fact you found good ones this is a nice expression to say to someone long may your Lum your chimney wreak or smoke basically I hope that you have a long life and that your your heart is always burning and uh yeah along the year long week one of my favorite Expressions slanger cheers you can see or you can also say which means even bigger bigger cheers all right if you're gonna go on a weed Road Trip Around Scotland like I did in Men in Celts you might get hungry and actually these ones here I'm quite fond of this is a tonics caramel wafer tonics are this old Scottish company a Wafers are pretty damn good a layered caramel wafery biscuity thing delicious as you can see huh fabulous thank you very much however they also make a tonic's tea cake it's a round Dome chocolate covered wafer bottom in the inside marshmallow incredible you can bite the chocolate off suck out the marshmallow eat the wafer on its own or just shove it all in your Gob it'll keep you going for a while delicious next from Edinburgh we have Edinburgh Rock no I think rock is all over Scotland and all over the British Isles actually no it's not the stone that Edinburgh Castle is built on and if you go to see Edinburgh Castle you'll see it is built on this amazing Stone and actually in Edinburgh also is Arthur's seat which is an old part of a volcano now most snacks in Scotland are essentially sugar so once you've had a few of them you're buzzing as you can see it's very hard very tough and it's essentially just pure sugar at the shortbread now Scotland synonymous with shortbread we love it Walkers wheat flour butter sugar sugar and salt delicious there's also another famous Scottish snack called tablet which is essentially sugar and I think condensed milk and it's all reduced down and it hardens into something similar to rock I'm not sure why the Scots love sugar so much but um hey it keeps us going and actually speaking of sugar here we have possibly apart from whiskey one of the most famous Scottish drinks now in the all around the world Coca-Cola is number one in Scotland iron Brew we can add Ginger we don't know why it's Ginger I can't tell you what it tastes like there's not a single taste like it in the world the ingredients are basically sugar citric acid some sort of flavorings and more sugar when I'm Brew try to reduce the sugar in their recipe there was a public outcry in Scotland the best thing for The Hangover a wee kind of Ginger and maybe a wee tonic Tea cake delicious it's made from garters apparently Gardens I don't know if you're going to come to Scotland there's one thing you must do and that is of course you must sample the Water of Life that is whiskey different regions have different types of whiskey there's a small island here called Eiler all the whiskeys come from Isla or predominantly Smoky whiskey that's because they tend to smoke The Barley with peat Pete was used to keep houses warm way way back when they burnt that it was like a sort of form of coal it would keep you warm but it also smell pretty badly a lot of the whiskeys around here spay side tend to be lighter more sweet could be down due to the water there and lowland Whiskey's having a sort of resurgence really for many years they they haven't really been at the Forefront of Scottish whiskey but they're making a comeback my own personal whiskey and assassinac I can't really tell you where it's from because it's actually three different distilleries if you're in Scotland and you visit one of its many many distilleries you might have a wee whiskey tasting which is come on let's face it the best part of visiting a whiskey Distillery you'll be greeted by the proud owner and they might pull you a wee drama wee Drama We shot but it isn't a shot so when you go in there don't just hammer it back as much as you really want to and you're probably desperate for one after having walked around The Distillery for a few hours oh what you will have smelt when you're walking around is maybe the barley or the spirit the Angels share is what they like to call it it's the spirit evaporating from the barrels well the first thing to do hit your whiskey tasting you'll probably be given a glass like this this is a Glencairn glass you can try whiskey from other glasses but this one's been specially designed so then it captures the aroma and makes it easier to sample the whiskey oh no my god when you're smelling the whiskey do give it a smell you'll find that you might be able to pick up more notes and on this I'm getting butterscotch and honey earthiness delicious and maybe give it a swirl around you can see how strong it is from the legs similar to wine tasting you'll see if the alcohol volume is quite High it'll produce these legs that slowly drip down the glass you might want to check the color of it and then of course the tasting don't drink it all at once have a wee sip let it sit on your tongue swallow and see how long the Finish is what flavors come out you can't go wrong and honestly if it's too strong for you it is a good idea to add just a wee dash of water the water also helps open up the oils in the whiskey and when you do that you might find there's a lot more flavors come out a lot of the higher notes a lot of the aromatics a lot of the floral notes especially when things are bottled at a higher strength a lot of whiskeys in Scotland are bottled at Cask strength which is anywhere between 40 to 50 to even 60 percent which is pretty fiery stuff this one here 46 I like a bit of alcohol cheers [Music] now if you didn't know Scotland is part of the British Isles it's at the north of England you can see England just down here but we don't want to talk about them they're not very important so this is Scotland the highlands the islands Central belt the lowlands and then going further up here Shetland which is the most furthest part of Scotland the original people that lived here were the picks and in fact a lot of the people from Shetland believe they're not Scottish they're Scandinavian over here somewhere behind my head the Scandinavians are the Vikings they took over a lot of Scotland so a lot of the place names especially in the east coast have actually got Scandinavian names and we use in Scots language a lot of Scandinavian words like for instance burn as a child over here Lewis and the north of Scotland and the highlands very remote not many people live up there but people do and most of them do speak Gaelic Gaelic is similar to the Irish Gaelic different pronunciations but it is a very very similar language that actually comes from The gales who were originally from Ireland that came across yeah I think if you go to Scotland it's a very romantic place it's tangible the history there you can see castles and battlefields and I don't know it sort of conjures up a great romance so it's hard to not fall in love with its landscape one of the best things to do is to hire a car remember you're going to be driving on the left-hand side of the road so that is your first Challenge and a lot of people drive up to the Isle of Skye it's a very beautiful place there's a lot to explore the fairy pools old man of store it's such an incredible place and you can hire yourself are we bothi which is a wee house or a cottage to stay in but on the way you'll go past some amazing locks you'll go past lock Lenny lock or lock active and there's an amazing Castle a very famous castle called Elon Donan it sits on a little island and has a stone bridge going across to it it's quite romantic so you should check that out while shooting Outlander we have been very lucky to shoot all around Scotland really great castles great battlefields firstly we'll probably be Blackness where Jamie Fraser is whipped this is in Fife just on the coast near Edinburgh it's a very dramatic Castle set right on a Promontory overlooking the further fourth very hard to attack we also have lock Rana who it's a Valley now this is where the magical stones are that we put there next to it is shahin which is this amazing mountain for the mountain of the Scots or the mountain of the fairies it was very special Mountain for the locals there and for the Celts so if you want to go there go visit the Stone Circle however unfortunately Stone Circle isn't there our stone circle is made of polystyrene we put it up there when we're shooting another great place that you might want to visit Claude and more this is where Bonnie Prince Charlie came back to the shores of Scotland and unfortunately lost his battle for Independence being a Scotsman you think I was a proud golfer because obviously Saint Andrews is the home of golf here in Fife very famous place and I have actually teed off on the old course but I'm not really a golfer to be honest however I would say there are infinite number of amazing golf courses to experience from way down in the south in Galloway all the way up to the very tip you'll find a golf course that's going to challenge you and give you some amazing spectacular views coming back to to Edinburgh actually which is the Forefront of especially Live Theater not only that comedy and music because once a year we have the Edinburgh Festival it's a very large Festival of live performance it's when the city almost triples in size there are shows comedy theater music touring shows they all come to Edinburgh and converge and it really is an amazing experience the best theater to be honest can be found in Edinburgh it's where I grew up it's where I first went to the youth theater at the role ICM theater here in Edinburgh we've also got the Traverse Theater which is also where I did my first professional job just around the corner they do a lot more new writing there are a few places around the rest of Scotland they've got Perth rep which is up here you've got a lot in Glasgow that goes on I actually started my career in touring theater and we would Tour all around Scotland and do plays in the most remote places so we went to the Isle of Skye we went to Lewis up here we even played on a place called easdale Island which is a tiny Little Island somewhere up here on the Summer Isles I'm obviously a very proud Scotsman and when I'm away I do tend to miss Scotland people are very friendly you'll find especially a taxi drivers if you're getting a taxi in Scotland they'll they'll find out everything about your life before you finished your journey I guess I missed the landscape you know it's many locks and glands the mountains the air the water soft water so that's everything you need to know to pass yourself off as a true Scotsman just don't forget your kilt [Music]

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Length: 12min 30sec (750 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2023