A couple of things I love in one photo: kilts, ceilidh dancing, scouting and KISC!
(photo by melthescoutygal)
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Would love to see this first thing in the morning when opening my tent…
Just spent a great weekend at the music festival Na Fir Bolg. As expected I wasn’t the only one in a kilt, although some of the garments that would probably identified by their wearers as a kilt, would not really qualify as such by a strict definition…
There were quite a few bagpipes on stage as well: Corvus Corax, Berlinski Beat, The Black Tartan Clan and Kadril all used them.
Oh, the drink / bottle holder turned out to be quite useful, although most of the time it was easier than I expected to find a spot at a table.
In a couple of hours I’ll be off to Na Fir Bolg, a nice folk, rock and cabaret music festival in Vorselaar, in the province of Antwerp.
One of the groups performing is The Black Tartan Clan. When I went to one of their concerts a couple of months ago, almost everybody was kilted—including me, of course—so it made sense I would pack my black kilt for this weekend.
Since folkies usually are quite kilt friendly anyway, I decided to wear a kilt the rest of the weekend as well.
On top of the selection of artists, one of the nice things about this festival is the fact they still serve beer in real glasses. So I spent some time to stretch my leather drink / bottle holder to fit a full-size Guinness pint glass! It might come in handy… 😉
Well, it seems my trip with the Caledonian Sleeper will not be happening in the foreseeable future…
I’ve been warned that foreign cards wouldn’t work to order the berths I wanted, so I tried to get a British debet card. But apparently the Scottish bank in Brussels is not really for normal accounts, and banks in Scotland require you to actually live there to open an account. So this morning, when the Bargain Berths for the dates I’d like to book became available, I tried to book them with my Belgian credit cards anyway — I had some luck with them before — but:
Fine, just use a Fastticket machine then, you’d say? Well, unfortunately Bargain Berths are only sold as Print@Home tickets! Strangely enough, in their explanation about those Print@Home tickets they mention ‘overseas customers’. As long as those ‘overseas customers’ have British credit card then, I guess…
So, unless ScotRail introduces a payment system fit for customers worldwide, no Caledonian Sleeper for me. 🙁
Hopefully Serco — who will be taking over the service in 2015 — will have some berths or ’Pod Flatbeds‘ available for an interesting price AND better payment options!
But until that time: Megabus Gold, prepare a bunk bed for me! 🙂
