Kilted in Malta

[Martin S]

I have just returned from a holiday in Malta -- another Mediterranean country has now been exposed to modern kilts* – though, presumably, a generation ago, the British military kilt was not an unfamiliar sight on the island.

A few amusing moments:
A Scot who congratulated me for wearinga kilt; he said he hadn't the courage to do so!
Some French tourists in a museum, assuming I knew no French, exchanged comments such as "what about when the wind blows" and "when he's at the top of the stairs and you're at the bottom" and "just bend down and pretend to pick something up". No doubt about what they were talking about. Much was their surprise when I called over, in French, "well, if you really want to know…" A moment of silence, then we all had a good laugh.

Plenty of people turned to look, several simply asked if I was Scottish, and as usual, a number of adolescent girls gave way to fits of giggles. The vast majority of people I actually spoke to acted as if I was dressed the same way as everyone else.

There's a picture of the cotton Usakilt I wore visiting some of the remarkable Neolithic sites, and a homemade one with pockets was fine for some cliff walking and clambering over rocky shores in the sun, but, most of the time, it was so chilly I preferred my woollen breacan.

Martin,
now home again,
in Grenoble, France.

http//erso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france/usakilt in Malta.jpg

* the others being Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey in the last year or two.

[Blu (Ontario)]

...as usual, a number of adolescent girls gave way to fits of giggles...

This seems to be a universal constant.

[GMan]

I don't think that adolescent girls stop giggling, my two sisters just older than me are still giggling all the time.

Glen

[bubba]

What's really fun is when the teenyboppers start giggling and they notice you're looking at them. The giggling gets even more intense

[Graham]

Great stories martin, thanks for sharing them. How about some piccies in your album when you get a chance?
The perosnal albums are a nice feature of this site - just in case you didn't know.

[Martin S]

Usa kilt in Malta

I thought of putting the photo in the album section,but the method was not obvious, so I put it on my own website with the ref:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france/usakilt in Malta.jpg

(but I probably mispelt something).

Have a laugh!

Martin

[Hamish]

Usa kilt in Malta

I thought of putting the photo in the album section,but the method was not obvious, so I put it on my own website with the ref:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france/usakilt in Malta.jpg

(but I probably mispelt something).

Have a laugh!

Martin

Alors, Martin!

La page est introuvable!!

A bientôt,
Jambon

[Martin S]

Cher Jambon,

I got it wrong again -- this time it was the blanks in the URL.

It should be
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.fra...kilt.malta.jpg

Martin
l'Ecossais de France

[Hamish]

Cher Jambon,

I got it wrong again -- this time it was the blanks in the URL.

It should be
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.fra...kilt.malta.jpg

Martin
l'Ecossais de France

C'est meilleur ça!

But Martin! Surely you have not dyed your hair black?!!!