Highland Games in Switzerland

[English Bloke]

Superb pictures Robert. Cheers!

[Alan H]

It looks to me like the whole family is having a grand time! Excellent!

[OC Richard]

Many thanks for posting those!!!

The picture above is a bit of a puzzler, having one piping competitor and three judges. I've not seen that setup at any Games in the USA, where judges are at a premium (it being expensive to fly them in etc). So here, the three judges would be at three far-flung locations judging three different events.

It's so very interesting seeing Highland Games in other areas!

It was a bit of a shocker the first time I went to a Highland Games in the USA south, all these guys in Highland Dress with strong Appalachian or Southern accents, and wearing clodhopper boots with their kilts. It's odd, isn't it, that I had come to accept Highland Games where everyone is speaking in Californian accents as the norm! But how strange our Games might appear to a Scot, I hadn't thought of before that.

At a European Highland Games, I would think that most of the attendees would be speaking languages other than English. It would seem very odd to me, all those people in Highland Dress speaking German and French.

BTW my in-laws met in Switzerland, my father-in-law studying in Switzerland and my mother-in-law studying in France (but happening to be on holiday in Switzerland). They both speak good French though my father-in-law is more at home in German, somewhat unusual amongst Americans.