🏌️ More Than Words – Episode 16: Clyde and Joy 🏌️

From collapsing car plants to Elvis at Prestwick, because Ayrshire’s tourism strategy is apparently “industrial ruin, golf courses, and a suspicious amount of brandy.”

Featuring: 


🚗 Linwood’s Imp: Hillman no more


🏭 Johnstone’s supermarket museum: hummus with history


🪑 Beith’s furniture empire: from mahogany to missile silos


🥃 Barkip: illicit drinking, fiddles, and the constable keeping time with his boot

🏹 Kilwinning archers: 540 years of shooting wooden birds off clock towers

🤴 Eglinton jousting tournament: the Fyre Festival of medieval chivalry

🏌️ Royal Troon’s Postage Stamp hole: small, vicious, and capable of humiliating Tiger Woods in under 60 seconds

🎸 Prestwick Airport: Elvis touched down for 20 minutes, and Ayrshire built a shrine anyway

It’s collapsing car plants, medieval jousts in the rain, golf courses that bite, and Elvis merch stands. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and suspiciously soggy.

🛳️ More Than Words – Stage 15: Bonnie and Clyde 🛳️

From Viking boat‑hauling to wallabies in the Highlands, because Loch Lomond’s tourism strategy is apparently “confuse everyone, maximise revenue.”

Featuring:

🛶 Vikings dragging longships

💑 Honeymoon Island: medieval IKEA compatibility test

🦘 Wild wallabies … in Scotland

⛪️ Saints getting demoted

🎨 Turkey red dyeing: the Colonel’s secret recipe

📚 Tobias Smollett: 70‑foot monument, zero modern readers

⚓️ Clydebank: where Queen Mary launched the Queen Mary

✈️ Glaswegians foiling terrorists attacks

It’s travel podcasting with longships, marsupials, industrial collapse, and the Ryder Cup somehow making an appearance. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and shipyard tragedy.

⛵️More Than Words – Stage 14: It’s A Hard Loch Life⛵️

Because nothing says “Highland adventure” like failed gold rushes, haunted pubs, and goats still holding grudges from the 18th century.

Featuring:

⚔️ Scotland’s most scenic lost‑property office

🏰Achallader Castle: Highland piñata

💀True Detective: Glen Orchy (pilot)

💰 Tyndrum’s gold saga: 300 years of optimism, spoiler — the rocks won

🚉 Towns with two railway stations, because duplication = progress

🛁 Rob Roy’s outdoor shower

👻 The Drovers Inn: taxidermy greatest‑hits album, with bonus ghosts

💥 Cromwell’s redecorating tips

It’s bogs, ballads, and a suspicious number of railway stations — equal parts folklore, failed enterprise, and surreal comedy.