Hello everyone!

Tickets are booked, itinery is almost sorted, cars aren’t booked, gigs are falling into place… it’s organised chaos at the moment! We met at McCafe last week (high flyers eh) to finalise our loop. And it is looking fantastic! We are loopy with excitement.

On Saturday, Dave, Penny and I met up with the ‘grandparents’ of the Gaidhealtachd, Dougie and Meg Chowns, at their beachfront B & B out at Whangarei Heads. We spent the afternoon eating soup, watching Doug’s home videos of Scotland and getting lost on our big map of Scotland. On a side note, it’s amazing to me how easily lost you can get, even when you have a map. (Yes, I can hear you shouting, “Get a GPS!”)

Besides my slight dyslexia with Gaelic place names, everything is going wonderfully! We are blown away by the generous outpouring of hospitality of people throughout the UK! A big thanks to Doug and Meg Chowns for their support, contacts, hospitality and soup.

Cheerio!

x Emily