Glasgow - U2 Concert

We hired a car (Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Sxi - very gutless!) and headed to Glasgow for the U2 concert last week.
It was a very good concert. Played quite a few songs from their excellent new album plus all of their old hits.
Awesome stage show too.

Edinburgh - Fringe Festival: Raybon Kan

We saw Raybon Kan (the New Zealander) last night at The Globe.
Not a bad show but not the best we have seen.
About 1/4 of the crowd were kiwis.

Here is an excert from his website (I thought it was pretty funny):

This week I have been the victim of street crime. I was pickpocketed in London. I lost my entire wallet: credit cards, eftpos cards, driver’s licence. Fortunately, I still have my passport, so I was able to go to the bank the next day, and prove I am the owner of that account — yes that one — the one with no money in it.
I am never giving anyone directions again. And — I am also never hugging anyone on the street again. And — mark my words — I am definitely not dancing with anyone on the street either.
Here’s what happened. It was about 2am on Saturday. I was walking home, intoxicated. (If anything, this is the moral choice.) To help me find my way, I was using a compass. I bought this a week ago in Paris, to solve this problem I have, emerging from underground train stations, and not knowing which way is north.
A man with an Italian accent asked me for directions. I thought, I must really look like I know my way.
I told him to bear north-northwest. I admit, it pleased me to have superior geography to someone else.
And then — he hugged me.
I didn’t want to reject him. I didn’t want to offend his Continental notions of personal space. The hug took quite a while. But he was not finished thanking me.
I realise, as I recount this, I probably still had my wallet at that point.
Because now, he beckoned me into a Greek-style man-dance, where he stood by my side, and put an arm over my shoulder. He lifted one of his legs, and implied, by demonstrating, that I do the same, and entwine one of my legs with his, in a three-legged can-can hop. Man. I thought I was drunk. This guy is wasted.
Maybe it’s my open-mindedness, or my dance training, but I obliged. What can I say — he led well.
And that was that.
It wasn’t til the next day I noticed my wallet was missing. I didn’t suspect the Italian guy. He was lost. Wouldn’t he have taken my compass instead?
Still, better pickpocketed than being mugged. If I’d been mugged, I’d have felt traumatised. This way, I just felt over-charmed.

Edinburgh - Fringe Festival

We have been enjoying the Fringe Festival and checking out lots of comedy acts.
The best ones we have seen so far are:

Neil Delamere (really funny irish guy)
Adam Hills
Jason Byrne
Jason Cook
Rhod Gilbert

We have also been spending a bit of time up on the Royal Mile watching the buskers and colourful characters as per the photos in this post.
In fact that is where we are heading to shortly.

The Gathering

This man is happy with his Caber toss.



I wonder what was so funny?!

At the end of July, we joined 47,000 other people and visited Holyrood Park to attend The Gathering.
According to http://www.clangathering.org/, The Gathering is a celebration of Scotland’s culture, clans and families.
There were lots of Scottish food stalls, beer tents, and Clan tents where you could go and talk to other clan members. (kind of stitched Kirsty up with that one..There was a tent for the Macallum clan which she is related to, so I kind of mentioned it to the guy who was head of it and he rabbited on and on to poor Kirsty!) : )
There was a whisky tasting tent and I tried some really nice Tallisker whisky called 57 degrees North. I really liked it but it was for sale at £50 a bottle..bit out of my price range.
We got to see Highland Games, saw a speech by Prince Charles and just had a nice day out.

Sorry

Sorry for the lack of posts. Just not enough hours in the day and it is very time consuming to update the blog.
Will do my best to try and get some new updates on this week.