Old Stuff in Aberdeen Scotland...

Looking down Union Street... The main shopping street... at the grey buildings... It is a less exotic reminder of Poland.  The town is known as the silver city because everything is made from a light grey local granite... you can tell it had soul here but the Pizza Hut ,  McDonalds,, Burger King, and KFC have distracted from its interest and like a plague have eaten up all the niches of this fishing village that were once filled with fish and chip shops... I walked for two hours and found not a single fish and chip stand...The town is full of old churches like those pictured... obviously hundreds of years older than our country... and every single one (without exception that I saw) has been gutted and turned into a bar, a restaurant or a casino

The church at left looks like a church until you get close enough to see the marquee of who is playing tonight... its not God and the Jesus boys I can tell you, the one across the street is just as awesome but has been turned into a casino.  Another was a gothic themed pub with lots of teens in dark makeup and Metalica blazing through the speakers... my kind of place no doubt but come on...

Yet another was a office for an oil service company... This town (of about 200,000) is as American as (and maybe more so than) Lafayette, Louisiana and with less functional churches, which as far as I am concerned are an extremely important part of any European city.


This building (right) is one of the few purpose built things remaining in the city and it is the local sheriff's office, jail and city building... the one and same that was built for use almost 400 years ago.

On the brighter side there is an H&M and several other England only stores and plenty of pubs and ethnic food galore. I will have more exploring time tomorrow, and I'll be shooting some more pics and typing some more gibberish then.

Peace Out