Summer Holiday

[poliphilo]

We've booked a holiday. We're going by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.

Then the brochure arrived. All the people in all the publicity shots are grey. There's not a single, young, fit, happening twenty-year old. Everyone- but everyone- is over 50.

Young people do not travel by coach to Northern Spain to look at the Picassos.

I should have guessed as much. But I didn't. My very ignorance betrays how out of touch I am.

We have booked ourselves onto a package holiday for senior citizens.

(Long pause for reflection.)

Oh...........

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

We want to see Edinbourough.

We do have connections through the Shaw family, and we have tartans my sister brought back from Scotland (she and her husband spent some time there while she researched women's roles in Welsh coal mines).

But we really want to see castles. And I have heard the Hebrides are beautiful.

My son has red hair, as does one of my grandsons. My father, Maston Jones, was pretty obviously Welsh! But he also had reddish hair. Janice told us that Scotland is teeming with red-haired people! She was amazed.

We're also British and Irish--my grandfather was Jack McCarty.

Typical Americans.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh is the handsomest small city I know. People go on about Prague, but I've seen 'em both and I think Edinburgh wins out.

Ailz is half Irish protestant which almost certainly means that her ancestors originated in Scotland. I'm entirely English as far back as I can trace, but I entertain hopes that the origins of my surname- Grist- may be French.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I don't think Edinburgh is quite as wonderful as is made out. Yes it is nice but there is a lot of building going on which jars with the surroundings (I would love to blow up the Scottish Parliament which is just down the road from me on those grounds alone). My parents came to visit and Dad was so disappointed with Princes St which he hadn't seen since the 50s.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I last saw Edinburgh in the early 90s. I guess it's changed....