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Highland Games
I just discovered that we may have the chance to visit one of the Highland Games in May 2025. One is the Gourock Highland Games https://www.rshga.org/events/gourock-highland-games and one is the Gordon Castle Highland Games https://www.rshga.org/events/gordon-castle-highland-games. Our itinerary is not yet set, and I am eager to build one into our plan. I know nothing of the Highland Games but think it would be an amazing experience. Which would you choose, and why?
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Either would be fun. The decision will probably hang on if your itinerary includes the north Inverness/Elgin/Speyside area (the Gordon games) or the west Glasgow/Argyll/Trossachs area (the gourock games).
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Originally Posted by janisj
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Either would be fun. The decision will probably hang on if your itinerary includes the north Inverness/Elgin/Speyside area (the Gordon games) or the west Glasgow/Argyll/Trossachs area (the gourock games).
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Scotland will do that to you! LOL
way too much to see/do than most anyone has time to fit in. It takes many trips to even scratch the surface. The good thing is you really can’t make a ‘wrong’ decision because the whole country is wonderful |
I'd probably go with the Gordon Castle games, as they are part of a "country fair" that includes other activities and events. Gourock is quite close to Glasgow, hence crowds are likely to be much larger than the Gordon event, plus the videos from both games show that the Gordon Castle grounds are much more attractive than those in Gourock.
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Gordon Castle Games it is! Thanks Gardyloo!
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I so hope you do it. Our family attended the Games yearly here in the US, and it's one of the most enduring childhood memories I have.
We'd arrive early when the mist had not yet cleared in the surrounding forest, and we'd hear the sound of individual pipers warming up, the sounds echoing off the trees. My sister and I would bounce around the event totally unsupervised (and our family was BIG into supervision), so we'd watch the individual dancing competitions for a bit, move on to the competing fiddlers and pipers, then gaze in amazement at the HUGE guys tossing (what a word for the effort) the caber, eat sausage rolls and stuff fern cakes and Bakewell tarts down us until we got heartburn that lasted for days. The biggest part was the end of the day. The pipe bands would perform and be judged, and then finally, all the bands would march across the field en masse, performing "Scotland the Brave." And then the woods would go silent. I have chills just remembering it. I think I'll call my sister. |
Originally Posted by AlessandraZoe
(Post 17613331)
I so hope you do it. Our family attended the Games yearly here in the US, and it's one of the most enduring childhood memories I have.
We'd arrive early when the mist had not yet cleared in the surrounding forest, and we'd hear the sound of individual pipers warming up, the sounds echoing off the trees. My sister and I would bounce around the event totally unsupervised (and our family was BIG into supervision), so we'd watch the individual dancing competitions for a bit, move on to the competing fiddlers and pipers, then gaze in amazement at the HUGE guys tossing (what a word for the effort) the caber, eat sausage rolls and stuff fern cakes and Bakewell tarts down us until we got heartburn that lasted for days. The biggest part was the end of the day. The pipe bands would perform and be judged, and then finally, all the bands would march across the field en masse, performing "Scotland the Brave." And then the woods would go silent. I have chills just remembering it. I think I'll call my sister. |
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