Shopping in Scotland

Scotland is one of the four "home nations" that constitute the United Kingdom. It shares a stretch of 60 mile long land border with England to the south, and is separated from Northern Ireland by the North Channel of the Irish Sea. Scotland is bounded by the cool waters of the North Sea to the east, and the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and north.

The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh and its largest city is Glasgow Apart from these cities there are many other interesting cities in Scotland.

The Scottish currency is Pounds Sterling (£) just like the rest of the United Kingdom. Scotland's three national clearing banks make available their own sterling banknotes that include £1 notes, not produced south of the border. These banks are the Bank of Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland and The Clydesdale Bank. Although these currency notes are very common in Scotland, at times these notes might not be accepted by the shopkeepers in England. But English banks, will pleasingly exchange them for Bank of England notes. ATMs in Scotland commonly mete out the Scottish notes, but these can be swapped for Bank of England notes on request.

As a matter of fact, Scottish banknotes perhaps would be difficult to exchange outside the UK, where foreign banks are normally unacquainted with these notes.

Euros are widely accepted at all leading stores and tourist shops.

Scotland is comparatively costly in contrast to other European countries. Here you will realize that as you further move towards the goods become all the more expensive this is because of the difficulty and heavy expenditure of supply.

Scotland Shopping means helluva lot of fun and excitement. When you are visiting Scotland on a holiday tour or official trip you may pick some of its world famous tartan fabric. These tartans make for great cushion covers, skirt and curtains. Besides tartans, you can also purchase leather goods, bagpipes, sheepskin clothing, silver jewelry, china ware and crystal ware among other.

Most of the shops in Scotland remain open from 9 am in the morning to 5:30 pm in the evening from Mondays to Saturdays. The hours may differ from shop to shop and some stores also remain open on Sunday mornings.

Held on all first Saturday of the month, in this particular bazaar you will find fresh fruits vegetables, cheeses, oysters, sea food, wines, cakes, pies and everything else edible.