Thistle Parks - Listings of Scottish holiday park accommodation grouped alphabetically and by geographical area.
Balquhidder Braes Holiday Park - Letting details for static and touring caravans, tent pitches, timber tents. Additional information on utility block, site shop and nearby restaurant.
Camping in Scotland - Personal views on the reasons for camping with links to campsites that have been visited.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Mark Twain "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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- Mark Twain My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Henny Youngman Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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-- Aesop Camping and Caravans
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Mother Teresa I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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- Lewis Perelman Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Camping and Caravans
