Saturday, 28 February 2009

Edinburgh - February 2009 (6 nations Scotland v Wales & Italy)

























It's no secret that I am a big fan of Scotland and I always enjoy getting up to Scotland as much as possible.



We'd been talking about seeing Scotland play in the 6 Nations for a while...and so, it was that Samantha bought a couple of tickets for the opening match at Murrayfield, Scotland v Wales and we decided to head up to see Sctotland play.

Of course, first match against Wales, unlikely to win all things considered but still, should be cool anyway.









The day started with Welsh and Scots mixing on the Royal Mile....everyone was wearing kilts or tartan, even the Welsh! There were Boyos everywhere...and at the game the red of Wales was everywhere...almost outnumbering the dark blue of Scotland.

And loud, blimey, the Welsh sure can sing.

Anyway, the Welsh kept their Grand Slam aspirations going by winning the match pretty comfortably, despite a late Scottish raid on the line.

The day was so cool, with such a brilliant atmosphere that I decided to travel up to Edinburgh a couple of weeks later to see the good guys play Italy in their 3rd 6 Nations match.

This time I travelled up alone but it was still great to see Scotland play. The atmosphere pre-match was again first rate...this time with Italians wearing tartan kilts. Go figure!









The match wasn't the best but all the same, a great win by Scotland and another very enjoyable day out in Scotland.