SATURDAY JOURNAL: Yes the rules are different for Scottish Gypsy Travellers, but does anyone win in this cycle of conflict? A Traveller site in Highland Perthshire If you grew up in Perthshire in the 1970s and 80s Travellers were a part of life. They were there in the laybys that filled up with caravans at various points in the year. They stayed a few weeks. We drove past. They moved on. And so it went. At school, the Traveller kids came for a few weeks, maybe for a year or two, often just the once, then drifted off again with the seasons.