REWIND Episode 237: Scotland Your Way // A Guide to Each Region

But let's get stuck into today's episode, in today's deep dive into the different regions of Scotland.

So a really common misconception about Scotland is that it's small.

And it's not.

But hey, I get it.

Like if you see the UK on a map, like the UK on a whole, and you think to yourself like, oh, if I just focus on Scotland, then wow, I can cover so much ground.

I can see the entire country.

It's not like I'm trying to see London and Cornwall and Scotland.

I'm just saying Scotland, but Scotland is still not small.

And so I went to that Map Fight website, which I don't know if I've mentioned this for a while on the show, but it's just this site where you can put in two different countries and see the size comparison between the two.

And I like to do it kind of sometimes for fun, but also sometimes just to have a gut check on on how big a destination is and really how much you can expect to see and travel across in a limited timeframe of a vacation.

So I went to the Map Fight website and I always compare destinations to Texas initially because, I mean, I live in Texas, but also Texas is relatively roundish or squarish.

You know, it's not like a long, skinny state.

And I also intimately know how big Texas is and how long it takes to.

to travel across the state, even with flat land and going 80 miles per hour.

And so I did Texas compared to Scotland, and Texas is almost nine times larger than Scotland.

But Scotland is still not small.

And so I eventually stumbled upon that Scotland

is approximately the same size as the state of South Carolina.

But you can't see all of South Carolina in a 10-day vacation, and you can't see all of Scotland in a 10-day vacation either.

So we have to narrow it down.

And I see this so often when people start planning a trip.

They start with the attractions and activities that they want to do.

So they've seen this thing over here on Facebook, and then their friend told them about this thing.

And they start to develop this list without any thought to geography.

And then the planning becomes so hard because we are essentially trying to warp time, like in the sense that we're trying to travel all around the country just to hit these key attractions when really it may not be realistic from a travel time perspective.