Yesterday we did a 5 hour hike in the rockies, brilliant mountains!! we met a lot of folk on the trail but I was unprepared for the comments I got.

Here are some:
"are you a real scot?" reply: "no, I'm a fake" (with a sarcastic tone)
"Do you have your pipes with you?" and "where's your instrument?" (I nearly replied appropriately)
"are you playing the pipes today?" said at Red Rock, an entertainment venue.

Plus the usual smattering of "nice skirt", "are you scottish", but strangely...not one comment about what's under the kilt.

On the positive side, many either ignored the kilt, complemented me or looked puzzled when I told them I was from Tasmania (expecting me to say Scotland).

One person asked me if all men wore kits in Tasmania (I wish they did).

All in all I suppose it was a good response from most. Today I was out of a kilt for the first time, we borrowed bicycles to go to the shopping centre, I wore that boxer type bathing trunks I brought since I had no pants or shorts with me.
I went for a hair cut and it turns out the barber was Irish and said he'd like to wear a kilt....and here was me out of one!! that will be the last time!

next, we'll see what response in Scotland, that will be the most interesting. It's all a real lesson in human behaviour.