Our second visit to Celtic Connections this year – this time to hear The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, who were supported by Juliet North.
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Vishtèn
We didn’t go through to the Young Trad Musician finals this year as it was the day of an Edinburgh Scandi Session. As it happened, there was a great concert to go to in the evening anyway – Vishtèn were appearing at the Traverse Theatre bar.
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It’s January so it must be Celtic Connections.
We had interesting seats in the Royal Concert Hall, enabling me to be critical of the sound techs 🙂
It was a great concert though, with Malinky supporting TOSTA Banda, a fusion of minority language groups from the west of Europe.
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Christmas Market 2018
We went in to the Christmas market today so that Marwyn could get her annual fill of bratwurst. Good weather, fortunately.
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Castlelaw Hill, Pentlands
After a break since earlier this year, I got out walking again with Anne – we did a little walk up Castlelaw Hill to check out her knees! All seems well, thankfully. It was an extremely windy day, but our walk slotted in nicely between showers so we didn’t get wet.
Cornwall 2018
We moved on from Devon to Cornwall, where we stayed in Mevagissey. We saw the Eden Project, which was really great, and had a nice trip over to Perranporth so that I could get in the sea in the sunshine.
Devon 2018
After Halsway we has a few days in Devon and Cornwall. In Devon we stayed at the Duke of York in Iddesleigh, a lovely little village quite a long way from most places.
Scotland’s summer sunshine!
Well we have had an amazing few weeks of sunshine – at times it has been really warm, and we have tried to make the most of it (though I confess to doing a bit of antenna building as well!). It’s definitely been beach weather for me!