Galician--great story. At the games I had the gratifying experience of having a young woman and her mother stop me to ask to take a picture with me. The mother said that her daughter was shy, but wanted to take a picture with someone in Highland attire. It gave me a little lift to get the "celebrity treatment", and I felt as though my effort at authenticity and naturalness had been successful.
I had several Japanese groups take my picture, one older gentleman with a very elaborate video rig was filming me surreptitously, until I invited him to pick his angle, lighting, etc. It highlighted for me that some Japanese have an interest in things Highland--discussed in a segment of the Highland Classics documentary "Instrument of War". The interest in things Highland apparently knows no bounds!
Please do post your pics. Can't wait to see them!
Thanks!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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