Scottish And New..., Intro

[mdln]

...new to the forums but I've been a member since 2006.

Hello everyone :-)

I'm Scottish but have been living in Colorado for 11 years. We are moving to Scotland next year - quite exciting.

Just getting the hang of all the things to do here since I upgraded my membership. I have posted a couple of videos.

www.madelainecave.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all (I have a birthday in between - bad timing!)

Madelaine

[Rindy]

Hi mdln "Madelaine" Welcome to Celtic Radio site. Thanks for posting. Good luck in your move to Scotland and hope you will keep us posted. I enjoyed your videos. Wishing you a Happy Birthday in-between Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Slainte

[haynes9]

Hello there, Madelaine, and welcome to the forums. When I first got here, I lurked a lot before I posted. Good to have you with us.

Good luck on the move and do keep us informed as to how things are going. We wish you well.

Have a great day!

[pdtj]

Hope you make it to the Estes Park - Longs peak games before you go back to Scotland. I was surprised when I visited Scotland at how numerically small the games are compared to the ones in the USA. Probably just a demographics thing.
Cheers,
Parker
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[mdln]

Hi Parker

I've been to a few of the Festivals in Estes Park.

Highland Games are not really popular amongst the majority of ordinary folk in Scotland and, except for the odd one or two like the Cowal and Braemar Gatherings, attendance is not high. The main reason for this is that most people would go to their local Games, if any, and we don't tend to travel to the other ones - even the bigger ones. Cowal is the biggest with about 18,000 visitors and it's likely a lot of those are from overseas, I'm not sure.

In the area I'm from (East Lothian), the population is about 85,000 and we have about 40 Games within a 2 hour drive of us, plus hundreds of other annual Scottish Festivals with pipe bands, dancing etc. Compare that to Denver alone, with its population of around 600,000 and only a handful of Scottish events...

...so you're correct, it's demographics for the most part.

Nice to hear from you - I'm excited, Highlander Radio is playing my CD!!!

http://www.celticradio.net/music/index.php?album=Away To The Westward

Best wishes,
Madelaine

[MacFive]

Belated welcomes Mdln! Hope to hear your CD and music soon!

[leenie]

Hello Mdln...welcome to the forums...I don't spend a lot of time here myself...I seem to only find time for playing Medieval kingdom here...I have been to your beautiful country before and am traveling to Scotland again in 2012. Can't wait...hope you take advantage of all the forums and listen to all the stations Celtic radio has to offer.