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Here is the photo page for the Swedish Curling tour
of 2007. Paul needs a weeks rest after this
one, he and Alan both needed therapy sessions on the
Sunday/Monday. Paul can honestly say it has been
"one of the most fun tours ever, I never stopped
laughing!" Now is that a show of how much fun
it was or, is he laughing at the curling skills?
we will never know.
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arrival to
Braehead arena in Glasgow area, here is the
Mayor Lennart cutting the tape, officially
opening the place! I had only been with them
an hour and they start off doing "official
openings"! |
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Braehead
curling, steady as you go now lads - and
lady. Notice how we placed them near
no one else and right at the edge of the
rink ... |
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and so to
Perth rink. a nice welcome to Cecilia by the
boys, but is she all that happy? over to you
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sorry Cameron,
its a Swedish Mayor thing!
A pal of Paul's get a
new tie, courtesy of Sweden. This is the bar
in Dewars Rink Perth |
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Alan Hannah
gives some coaching to our pals from Sweden,
but what is going on here? are they plotting
against him? No I think they are
thinking "we'll show him a thing or two
about Swedish curling"
Well, Alan did say
"there were some things there I have never
seen before" say no more. |
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more scenes of
curling mayhem! Time for some trick
shots by the Scots to amaze our friends... |
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oh no it's the
wild bunch! |
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the sign said
it all! although Paul did not curl, it was
still a good Swedish Scottish match up! |
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kilty
curlers in Perth, on with the kilts and on
with the curling |
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line up
please on the ice, a real curler (Alan) and
our friends who just happened to be there!
Nice socks guys |
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aye cry you
will Claes, it's hard enough watching from
the sidelines, never mind playing with these
maniacs!
I did overhear
others saying what he was thinking "I can't
watch this". |
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is there any
need for a caption here? Mr Mayor
plays brush guitar, lets go the pub and
leave him to it! |
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aye, now
and again we did eat! This is the Foundry
night in Perth, nice bow ties guys ... waiting for the food whilst
shoving down a drink or three! did they mind
a wee wait for beers? what do you think ... |
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sorry Gordine,
wasn't my fault you got floor duty tonight,
they are ok really, just that they seem to
like you. Notice Liz kept out of the way ... |
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and so to
Edradour distillery, once again we have to
open the place! |
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Edradour
distillery, sampling at the bar BEFORE the
tour! Ulf has found his drink at last ... |
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in Christies
on Saturday - er, what is going on here? Our
Alan swapping arm drinkies with the mad
Ulf!!! He was great fun and boy can he
put them away! oh aye and he tried very hard
to chat up the lovely two young ladies at
the bar |
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Queens View
with the gang on Saturday, Claes is looking
just too comfortable in his kilt eh! |
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notice (if you
can) the bottle of whisky on the top shelf
... there is a story to this |
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We have had
enough, some kilted curlers struggling to
get off the ice! Perth will never be
the same again! Mind Alan keeping away from
them, dinna blame you Alan.
left; paul recieving
his badge from the Mayor in Christies bar
the first night, do I get freedom of the
town?
still in Christies,
just before the haggis, neeps and tatties
from Brian. Pints and drams
(cheers) slainte mhath!
everyone, Christies, the first of many! the
two boys at the back are into the whisky
already!
that special bottle of
whisky!
"officially opening"
the office of the Perth Provost! Logan
is on the left here, he is in the loo loo
hospital now after spending a day with the
gang |
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