Spoken like a true Londoner! Complete pish.
Why go to any big city on a motorcycle? Better to enjoy some of the finest roads in Europe around the north.
As I read it, the bloke is a tourist to the UK, who has two weeks in summer to go Epping (outskirts of London) to Scotland and back. An easily manageable task, Scotland (as your compatriot pointed out) not being that big and (as we are told many times) the good driving / riding roads being mostly limited to the west / north west. He can do the lot.
Let’s assume, just for now, that he likes seeing things other than the road vanishing away into the glens. Maybe he likes the cultural museums that Edinburgh can provide? Maybe he’d like the old town of the city of York, with its Nordic heritage? Nobody is suggesting that he has to anchor himself in Glasgow, are they?
When we did our lap of Germany (a very much bigger country than the UK) it was 21 days, including the crossing of Holland and the northern part of France. He has two weeks. We ‘did’ the cities of Berlin (a very big city), Dresden, Passau, Garmisch (quite a small place) but we liked the train ride and Germany’s highest cable car, which we’d have missed. Lubeck and Stralsund we visited and somehow still managed most of the good roads of Germany in between each of the places, along with Rugen island as a bonus.
If I’d of listened to UKGSer I’d not have gone anywhere near Berlin, for no other reason than it’s a big city. That would have been a pity as I’d have missed seeing the famous zoo, the rebuilt Reichstag, the Berlin Wall museum, Unter den linden, the hookers, going on the U-bahn, the memorial church and having a bier in the sunshine. I’d have swerved Dresden entirely, so would not have seen the sights there, so I’d not have seen the rebuilt Frauenkirche nor read how they rebuilt it stone by stone by stone. I’d have definitely avoided Passau (a place I’d been assured by UKGSer was a seething hotbed of illegal immigrant crime) and - as a consequence - would have missed seeing the Danube. I definitely would have kept a million miles from Lubeck, as it’s a city, so I’d have missed the old town, the afternoon boat ride and discovering that it is (apparently) the birth place of marzipan. As to Rugen, I’d have been told to keep away from the city of Stralsund, so I’d have missed the island, which I knew nothing about before I went there.
Now, you can tell him the ‘must see’ sites (he suggested distilleries, though I am sure there’s more to Scotland than those) outside of the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh - which he shouldn’t go near - and the great secret (and not so secret) roads that join them all up. C’mon, I have done my bit to build his holiday...... over to you. You can start with the best distillery, I guess. After that, the most awesome castle and the finest loch, that’ll leave the visitor slack jawed with wonder.