Well I tell what I didn't learn. How to drive on the left! No thanks, I would have crashed. When I was in Barbados I did it a couple of times but only in the middle of nowhere. Those Scots drive fast and I was glad to just let Bruce handle the driving.

See the thread about what I can't say in Scotland for other stuff I learned.

Oh I did learn that I can be annoyed by busy bodies in Ireland. On our way to Scotland we flew into Dublin and stayed there for a couple of days before going onto Belfast so Bruce could take care of visa stuff. On our first night in Dublin we were walking around town with the wee one after having dinner and it was about 10pm there but to Ewan it was the middle of the afternoon. We heard it was OK to go into pubs with the baby so we decided to get a Guinness. The pub was a quiet local spot with no loud music playing or anything so we thought it would be fine. Apparently it is OK to take kids into pubs but not after 10pm the bartender let us know but he let us drink our beers. I drank half of mine then stepped outside with Ewan while Bruce finished up. Some Irish pub tart actually followed me out and told me that my baby should be in bed and not in a pub. I explained to her that we had just gotten off a plane from LA and that my baby was still on LA time. Don't know why I even bothered saying that much. She started ranting about how she didn't care where we came from my baby should be in bed and she was going to report me for having him out so late. I laughed in her face and said "to who?" I should have asked if she meant to the nasty pub tarts association. The was a total bleached out hair, blue eye shadow wearing wrinkled up hag who no doubt had neglected babies at home stinking up their soiled diapers and she was just so excited at the chance to tell someone off. So much for the loving Irish welcome! They next day we had a Guinness at a nicer place just so I didn't have to have that experience taint my chance at having a really good Guinness in Ireland!