Comments on: I’m off to see the engines

By: Neil MacLean

Neil MacLean — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:00:06 +0000

You’re right Chris. One bottle of claret and I am always steaming through the Kyles of Bute (and for much of the rest of the trip too).
Pat, if you’re doing that family trip (Herald-permitting) in the summer give us a wave. I’ll be on the flumes at the Waterfront with junior. The Waverley passes so close kids come out of the pool with smut marks.

By: pat kane

pat kane — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:46:06 +0000

Indeed, a Waverley family trip to Rossi (spelling circa the Big Yin comic strip, Sunday Mail, 1975) is about as distilled an expression of 20th century Scottishness as you can get. You’ve got me raring to organise my family trip for next summer. Photies are pretty Proustian, I agree.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:16:07 +0000

Sorry, Neil - you’ll have to make a return visit to Dunoon in the summer if you want to visit the Waverley bar! Actually, a prime experience is to eat fish & chips in the restaurant with a bottle of claret while steaming through the Kyles of Bute on a wet July day ….

By: HenryGB

HenryGB — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:10:24 +0000

Re Waverly: The Romance of Steam! I am sure you must have read Kippling’s “M’Andrew’s Hymn” - “..the bairns see what their elders miss…” Loved the pictures