Scottish Adventurrres 12 - Whisky + Ale = Gooood

( Day 5 – With a bit of time to explore the castle this morning we then head off on a loop around the Trossachs (or Braveheart country if you choose) – hear the history of Wallace and Bruce, Doune Castle, Rob Roy Macgregor’s land, waterfalls and short walks galore – then back to the castle to relax in style... )

Scottish Adventurrres 13 - The Foolish SCAdian

I was wearing a SCA tee shirt today. It read:SCA
Been there
done that
got the T-shirt
XLCryptic, which led to questions. First question, what's "SCA" mean. I explained and felt faintly ridiculous doing so. It makes more sense to be into medieval recreation in North America, were we never actually had a middle ages.

This led to my explaining that my persona was 13th century Scots/French - to F, my Scottish tour guide. Not sure how she took me play-acting one of her ancestors. I hope it didn't come off as patronizing.

I did get to show off a picture of me in my kilt. On the good side, It showed that I look pretty good in a kilt. On the bad side, it was my Black Watch kilt. The Black Watch was the unit formed to hunt down Jacobites. Not the thing you want to be showing to a Scottish Nationalist.

Oh, and the Black Watch, being formed in 1725, is not in period.