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Kilts in the Media Was someone famous wearing a kilt? Did the media cover a Kilt issue?

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Old 10-30-2006, 09:50 AM
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Rick Steve's Travels in Europe

I think it was Saturday night. Rick Steve's is one of the Travel Experts that has a show on PBTV.

He was in Scotland this time. He hit a few highlights, but the most interesting part was that he spent a portion of the show with a local in a kilt. They were shown going into a local restaurant and discussing the cuisine that was a blend of Scots and French originating from the Auld Aliance. They left the restaurant and went to a pub and showed the one half were it was more of a rowdy bar and then the "gentleman" side with velvet booths.

He did at one point over dinner ask "Why he wears the kilt?". The gentleman replied that it was a national pride statement to him. I don't recall if he mentioned comfort. He was wearing a Lovat Green Argyle jacket with his kilt.

I almost forgot, they also went to a distillery where they showed Rick the difference between drinking keg strength whiskey and then added a bit of water to it to "release " the flavors in the whiskey. I don't recall the distillery.

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Old 10-30-2006, 10:44 AM
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I saw a piece of that show, but the part I saw was of Rick and a kilted man in a Scottish church.
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Old 10-30-2006, 02:26 PM
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Caught that while surfing this weekend as well. It was a well done piece on Scotland, although all of Rick's shows are well done.
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Old 10-30-2006, 02:37 PM
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...and was ol' Rick wearing his famous money belt with that kilt or did he have a second sporran that he was wearing under the kilt?

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Old 10-30-2006, 07:02 PM
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AA, unfortunately Rick did not "go native", although he would have done wonders for kilt wearing as a special occasion thing, i.e. whilst visiting Scotland!
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