GERMANY kilted meetup

**herminator** · 9th April 07, 03:21 PM

As there are quite a few of us in Germany how about meeting...

perhaps on the 21. July 2007 at the Highland games in Weinheim, near Heidelberg? Actually so near we could combine the two!

Or at the 2. Highland Games Angelbachtal in Schloßpark Eichtersheim - 07./08.07.2007

Anybody interested?

**Canuck** · 9th April 07, 03:41 PM

If you have a chance to come to Holland in a few weeks...this event might be the ticket
http://www.scotfest.nl/log
Kiltgoodies will be there as well as I Rkilts , promises to be a fun day.

**herminator** · 9th April 07, 03:47 PM

Sorry, no, I´m visiting my parents that weekend. Besides I have no car so I do all my travelling by train and That is why I mostly stay in Germany!

**Mumbles** · 9th April 07, 04:15 PM

I hear yah. Id LOVE to go, but money IS an issue and I use the train to get everywhere as well (sometimes my bike for nearby cities)

**Mumbles** · 9th April 07, 04:18 PM

Where is the second one located exactly? And the first one, how close exactly to HD is it?

**The Frumious B.** · 10th April 07, 09:50 AM

As I was scanning through the new posts today, I was looking for a place to start a thrrread about my latest internet find.

The Thread-related stuff is at the bottom of this essay!

Persuant to a conversation with a "kilted" (see footnote, if I remember to write it) young soldier at work one day, I was Googling Kilts and Herrenrock (litterally, men's skirts) and Nuernburg to find the shop he told me he had bought his from.

I did find a couple of Goth and Punk types stores selling leather skirts and mini-skirts but nothing that was actually a kilt. Or, at least, anything I would be seen in at my age.

I did, however, come across a llink for the BAGEV, which translates to the Bagpipe Association of Germany (http://www.bagev.de)and a link for the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
(http://www.rspba.org) which of course links to the Glasgow group. Very Cool.

And on the BAG website...a long list of pipe bands in Germany with a few links to Schottische Festivals, Piping Competitions, Schools and more.

www.highland-dragon.com is one band link and the pages are in English as well as German.

So, relating to this thread...on the site I also found info for the

Xanten, Germany (the only town in Germany starting with an X) Schottische Festival on 15-17 June. Xanten is in the area of Koln, if i read the map right.

Also of note, Stuttgart University has a Pipe Band.

And, there is a Heidelberg and District Pipe and Drum Club. http://www.heidelberganddistrict.de/

and this event

. Highland Games Angelbachtal im Schloßpark Eichtersheim
am 7./8. Juli 2007
http://www.caledonia-ev.de/eichtersheim2007.htm

in the very near Heidelberg area.

[edit] Neighboring Communities
The following cities and municipalities border Angelbachtal, clockwise from the North:

Sinsheim-Eschelbach
Sinsheim-Dühren
Sinsheim-Waldangelloch
Östringen (Karlsruhe)
Mühlhausen (Kraichgau).

Just thought I would throw this out here...

maybe it should be in Events or someplace...