Celtic Moment

help.
i need to know how much a train would cost from bournemouth to edinburgh
any rough ideas ?

i am planning a trip from Edinburgh to Inverness, then from Inverness to Oban and then back to Edinburgh. So basically a scenic tour of a bit of Scotland. i am thinking of renting a small 1.0 ltr car to make this happen. How much will it cost me in pounds for petrol to do this trip?

Could anyone tell me how much a taxi would cost from Glasgow main train station to Celtic Park as we want to do the tour. Thanks

My husband said it is fairly cheap, is that true? How much is it? And are these tourist areas far from one another? I want to see all of them.

Warwick Castle
Westminster Abbey
London Eye
Brighton, Leeds, Birmingham (I have family and friends friends there)

I also want to see some of the Harry Potter locations. (Platform 9 3/4 and such)

I bought the Sun today, and as I turned to the back pages I noticed that 5 pages had been donated to coverage of the England vs Trinidad and Tobago friendly tomorrow.

On the same night Wales are playing against the mighty Holland in another friendly. Yet there isn’t a single word in the paper on that match.

Let’s compare the two matches:

England are playing against a minor team in world football in a match that doesn’t matter. They will probably field half a team, and the result will not matter unless T&T actually beat them.

On the other hand Wales are playing against a team that qualified for Euro 2008. Wales will play one of their youngest teams in their history against these giants of world football. Yet again the result won’t matter, unless Wales win!

If anything there is a bit more significance to the Welsh match!

How then does England get so much coverage in the media whilst Wales getts nothing? Aren’t we both meant to be equal members of the UK? English bias?

hi im moving to orkney with my dad who has bought a farm on an island there called north ronaldsay and there is absoulutely nothing to do there i have heard
im also going to be there for my last year of high school but the school is in kirkwall which is on the orkney main island
what do i do there? how do i get to school and stuff?
the island is really small, isolated and far from all the other islands
thanks

Me and my boyfriend are going to Glasgow for a few days next month and we’re thinking of getting a late train home – the only problem is we don’t want to carry our luggage around with us!! How much does it cost to use the Left Luggage service at Glasgow Central? Thanks

I’m interested in understanding why some non-Welsh speakers have such animosity towards the Welsh language.
I can understand why adults don’t to learn, because it takes too much time etc. That’s down to personal choice. And also, I don’t agree with non-Welsh speakers being discriminated against for not being able to speak Welsh, because it’s not their fault they didn’t have a Welsh medium education.
I also think that there’s no point in sending kids to a Welsh medium school, if neither parent can speak Welsh. Because the parents won’t be able to understand the kids homework, and it could damage the child’s education.

But I don’t see the harm in kids learning Welsh as a second language. Education is about giving children choices and opporutnuities. I can think of many lessons I hated in school, and cannot remember a single thing I leaned. But I’m glad I had the opportunity to explore these subjects, and certainly never saw them as pointless. And I was able to decide for myself if I wanted to carry on and do A-levels etc.

It breaks my heart when I think of all those little children who were punished for speaking Welsh, with the Welsh Not, and being beaten at the end of the school day. And I can’t understand why some Welsh people carry on that attitude the prejudice towards the language in their own country. People just want to reclaim what was taken away from Wales by the British Government, after the ‘Treachary of the Blue Books’ inquiry.

If the Welsh language dies, Wales will be no different from England. Nothing against the English, but Wales is it’s own country with different history, culture, literature etc.

There are many Welsh soceities around the world, who study and admire our culture, language, music, poetry. People from all over the world study The Mabinogi, the Gododdin, the Welsh Triads, Celtic history, Old Welsh. Why isn’t there the same respect and pride in Wales? Is it shame? Not wanting to be seen as ‘backwards’?

I’m not attacking non-Welsh speakers, I recognise that Wales is a bilingual country. I just want to understand the hatred towards the Welsh language. I hate the way the language it splitting the country, and there really needs to be more understanding from both sides.

Please no abuse, this is a serious question.

My great-great grandmother was a British princess and lived in a castle.
For people without a sense a humour, this question is play on the old, “How much Indian are you?” and the common, “my great-great grandmother was a cherokee princess and lived in a tipi”

I am a Sri Lankan student reading for masters in Ireland. I am planning to bring my wife here for 3 months on a visit/tourist visa. I would be very much grateful to you if you can give me a rough estimate of the amount that we have to show in (either my or her) bank account statements in order to obtain visa? A rough estimate would suffice with a little explanation if possible. Thank you.