The sun shone which was an important fact in making the Saturday of the Gathering such an outstanding day for the Clan MacDuff tour group. Our treasurer, Davey Cottrell had the opportunity to meet Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay and many in my group were delighted to see both the Duke and the Duchess walking around the Clan Tent area at the Gathering. We all enjoyed Prince Charles speech at the Opening Ceremony, as for us in summarised much of our travel around Scotland in the preceding 10 days visiting Burns country at Mauchline, Alloway and Dumfries to honour the 250th anniversary of his birth and our visit to Abbotsford to learn about the writing skills of Sir Walter Scott and of his start of the tourist industry and the re launch of tartan. The march up the Royal Mile was a specially significant event with people who were lining the street constantly calling out " Lead on MacDuff" or just well done MacDuff. We thoroughly enjoyed the pageant which again summarised much of our tour which had also visited Bannockburn and talked about the William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. We loved the idea of looking back down and seeing life through the eyes of our ancestors as so many of us were in Scotland doing exactly that. Scotland on Sunday had nice photos and an article about the event.
Tuesday 28 July 2009
The Gathering 2009
The sun shone which was an important fact in making the Saturday of the Gathering such an outstanding day for the Clan MacDuff tour group. Our treasurer, Davey Cottrell had the opportunity to meet Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay and many in my group were delighted to see both the Duke and the Duchess walking around the Clan Tent area at the Gathering. We all enjoyed Prince Charles speech at the Opening Ceremony, as for us in summarised much of our travel around Scotland in the preceding 10 days visiting Burns country at Mauchline, Alloway and Dumfries to honour the 250th anniversary of his birth and our visit to Abbotsford to learn about the writing skills of Sir Walter Scott and of his start of the tourist industry and the re launch of tartan. The march up the Royal Mile was a specially significant event with people who were lining the street constantly calling out " Lead on MacDuff" or just well done MacDuff. We thoroughly enjoyed the pageant which again summarised much of our tour which had also visited Bannockburn and talked about the William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. We loved the idea of looking back down and seeing life through the eyes of our ancestors as so many of us were in Scotland doing exactly that. Scotland on Sunday had nice photos and an article about the event.
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