Kilted in Paris

[GMan]

Oh, dear! Please don't get all technical, Sherry! I'm just a simple country lad!! ;) ;)

But Ham,

You are a simple country lad who happens to be happily kkilted!

[Sherry]

Hamish, are you teasing, or should I explain it? If I can do it, anybody can.

I have a Scottish friend who lives in West Texas now, who describes less-than-desirable reactions from the French women when he was in Paris with the Tartan Army for the World Cup.

He tells of a piper friend piping away in the bar, while two of the French bar maids were talking to each other. One of them walks over to the piper, reaches up his kilt, has a feel around, walks back to her companion & says, "Il est libre." My friend said the piper never stopped playing, but he'd never seen a man turn so many shades of red!

They also had trouble with drunken French women trying to reach up their kilts on the street. He was probably drunk, too, but he wasn't amused.
Sherry

[Archangel]

reminding me of grandad's WW1 stories before mum gets back in the room and stops him...

[Sherry]

:grin:

Sherry

[David White]

An interesting article, Sherry - and thanks for re-typing the whole thing!

My experiences when kilted in both France and Belgium were that I have only ever been asked if I am "Écossais", never "Anglais"!

Ah, they remember that the Écossais and the French were very
close.

dave