Thanks folks - IMHO Scotland has the scenery! If you took everything north of the Antonine Wall, then smeared it over an area about 5 times the size and forested it all, that pretty much describes the Canadian Shield portion of Ontario. Add about the same land area but of low spruce forest, muskeg, lakes, bogs and rivers surrounding Hudson Bay and that accounts for the rest of northern Ontario.
But wasn't it Ewan McGregor in Long Way Round who compared everywhere to Scotland (including Rwanda)? National trait?
Nick
PS Snow and down to -16 tonight! No wonder I have time for pratting around with rambling posts like this.