When Scotland voted on independence from the rest of the UK, some people were surprised it didn't pass.

It seemed that the whole establishment was telling Scotland why it couldn't do it,

and I firmly believed Scotland could do it.

And I was devastated when we didn't get it.

Coming up, a panel of Scots describe how they're getting on five months after what they described

as the biggest political decision of their lives.

I don't like nationalism.

If England didn't have the Scots, I mean, how could they think?

I mean, the Scots rang the empire.

I think united we stand, divided we fall.

Across the North Sea, Belgium lives with a dual personality

divided between Germanic and Latin Europe. That fault line crosses right through the

middle of Belgium, Belgium is usually involved in every continental European conflict.

A close look at national identities in Scotland and Belgium, and we remember a First World War tragedy off the

coast of Ireland.

There's still a lot of unanswered questions about the sinking of the

Lusitania. It's all coming up on travel with Rick Steve's.

Remember the Lusitania. That was the battle cry that encouraged young British men to enlist in the first world war after the great ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat.

In the horror of 1,200 men, women, and children dying in the cold Atlantic off the coast of Ireland

encouraged America to eventually join its allies in the Great War.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we'll remember what happened a hundred years ago this May near the Irish

port of Kinsale. We'll also check in with friends from Scotland on what they're thinking now

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