Tour Diary: 1st July - Port Harwich UK

Here's Nick and Andy sitting at the scenic port of Harwich(?) in Essex...Just dropped M n'M to Stanstead where they are jetting their way to another scenic port...this time the port of Esbjerg in Denmark.

Spent last night at some character-less motel on the side of the motorway in central England after an 8 hour drive from Dunkeld in Scotland.  Thers some weird station on the radio which must be an EU initiative as it sounds like its they're speaking in French, German, Dutch and maybe Danish all at the same time.

Anyhoo!! Dunkeld? Cool spot..stayed with Gavin Duncan (ex Banshee Reeler) and Jess along with their two wee lassies - many thanks to them for putting us up and up with us.

Watched the world Cup final in a house that belonged to a woman who the Beatrice Potter character Miss Tiddlesomething was based on....so the story goes ..Mo thought it fascinating at least! 

Caught up with another couple of fiddlers in Scotland too....Jamie McClennan in Glasgow who did so e touring with us a few years ago...doing well there by all accounts. Also by chance caught up with Sarah McFadyen who happened to be driving t5hrough Fort William as we were going south...said to say hi to everyone of course.

Now we could go on and on about the odd bit of drinking that has inflicted itself upon us along the way so far...memory isn't the most reliable though so we wont....

Had 3 good days rehearsals with our stand in piper Hector in Temple Lane studios in Dublin which was good craic...also managed a few tunes down in Andy's folks' place where we discovered Hector is a generous pourer of a single malt.

So we have made it so far to Helsinki where we've just come off the ferry and what a ferry it was..a small floating village no less...very flash. Have had good gigs so far in Copenhagen and Stockholm. Crowds don't take much encouragement to get up and have a boogie over here. Few folk even remembered us from last time too..
should have some visual evidence of things soon... < back