Dundee and Perth
From the City of Discovery to the Fair City, both of them with famous castles on the river Tay
AFTER NORTHUMBERLAND, I travelled north to Dundee, nicknamed the City of Discovery, a go-ahead industrial city where the first purpose-built British research vessel, the RRS Discovery, was built at the end of the Victorian era.
It was good to see the relations again: Dundee is where my father comes from, and where my 76-year-old aunty and my cousins still live.
One of my cousins was among the first people to stand for the SNP in the Dundee local body elections, in 1987.
Plus, a member of my family was stressed out with legal proceedings, so I figured I could help out.
I stayed with my aunty and my cousins, including a cousin named David who was born in New Zealand and then reverse-emigrated to Scotland. They live in a beautiful village called Liff, just northwest of Dundee.
We went to the Law, which means hill in the local dialect, which has a war memorial on top and a good outlook over Dundee.
