Another Scotland Post

In most of the pubs I was in in Scotland there was no music being played (except maybe live music). In the US it's almost a guarantee that there will be music being played or possibly the sound from a TV. In a busier pub in Scotland, it's nice: there is a constant buzz of conversation around you so it doesn't feel that different from an American bar with music, but it is easier to talk to the people around you. In a quieter pub, it feels more like everyone is more in the same social space because it's very easy to talk to other people.

This can be good or bad, and in one bar that Amanda and I were in, it was simultaneously good and bad as a drunk Scottish guy talked quasi-coherently to us until we finished our drinks and left. I was actually thrilled to talk to an odd drunk Scottish guy, but if I lived in Scotland it would probably get pretty old.