Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Inverness? Oh Dear!
The Highland Year of Culture. How embarrassing!
A marketing campaign in Grand Central Station, New York. Inverness with a pivotal role in attracting visitors to Scotland. How can anyone stand up and utter this rubbish with a straight face?
Inverness doesn't need money spent on attracting visitors to enjoy its "culture." Every city in the world has at least one untalented busker accompanied by a skinny mongrel lying on a dirty blanket all day while the "artist" tortures the eardrums of passers-by in the hope of being thrown a few pennies.
What Inverness needs is millions spent cleaning up the dirty, dingy, neglected town, sorting out the traffic chaos and pedestrianizing the centre. It's a disgusting mess, light years behind other Scottish cities in that absolutely no effort has been made to make the place attractive to visitors and locals.
Go North Music Festival to move from Aberdeen to Inverness for 2007. Bagpipes, fiddles and accordians?
A six-day International Orienteering Championships in Strathspey. That'll be thrilling for spectators standing in the rain.
World Mountain Biking Championships at Fort William. A82 trunk road choked with traffic, accidents and log trucks. See an environmental disaster area at Ben Nevis.
A national exhibition by the National Museums Of Scotland and National Library Of Scotland at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery. It's tiny, awful, and needs demolishing.
Blas - the annual noncompetitive celebration of Gaelic language and culture, launched this year. Blethering in a dead language.
The Scottish Wheelchair Curling Championships at Inverness Ice Rink. Four wheel drive wheelchairs and big lumps of granite.
If that's culture, I'd rather throw the busker a quid before getting off to Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee - real cities with real culture.
A marketing campaign in Grand Central Station, New York. Inverness with a pivotal role in attracting visitors to Scotland. How can anyone stand up and utter this rubbish with a straight face?
Inverness doesn't need money spent on attracting visitors to enjoy its "culture." Every city in the world has at least one untalented busker accompanied by a skinny mongrel lying on a dirty blanket all day while the "artist" tortures the eardrums of passers-by in the hope of being thrown a few pennies.
What Inverness needs is millions spent cleaning up the dirty, dingy, neglected town, sorting out the traffic chaos and pedestrianizing the centre. It's a disgusting mess, light years behind other Scottish cities in that absolutely no effort has been made to make the place attractive to visitors and locals.
Go North Music Festival to move from Aberdeen to Inverness for 2007. Bagpipes, fiddles and accordians?
A six-day International Orienteering Championships in Strathspey. That'll be thrilling for spectators standing in the rain.
World Mountain Biking Championships at Fort William. A82 trunk road choked with traffic, accidents and log trucks. See an environmental disaster area at Ben Nevis.
A national exhibition by the National Museums Of Scotland and National Library Of Scotland at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery. It's tiny, awful, and needs demolishing.
Blas - the annual noncompetitive celebration of Gaelic language and culture, launched this year. Blethering in a dead language.
The Scottish Wheelchair Curling Championships at Inverness Ice Rink. Four wheel drive wheelchairs and big lumps of granite.
If that's culture, I'd rather throw the busker a quid before getting off to Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee - real cities with real culture.
© Colcam 2005-2007
