Well, no better way to greet these past days of glorious weather we had in Scotland.
I did welcome my brother with a certain degree of apprehension as for him, coming from Italy, the weather here is never good enough...
This weekend however it surpassed our wildest expectations gifting us of the chance for a open air BBQ
and an unlikely trip to the beach including being able to put our feet in the water...
Quite an occasion, especially considering that the weather was pretty miserable in Italy and Dani escaped the rain to come here and get suntanned, beyond belief!
We used the days to relax, laze about in the sun and do a bit of sightseeing. Edinburgh is stunning in the sun! :-)
A few rays of sun and Scottish people go crazy. Guys walking around town shirtless and well, let's face it, some of them, proudly sporting a hefty beer belly that really didn't need to be shown but I guess it's all part of summer as we know it up here.
Every little green patch of town covered in people sunbathing, some red as lobsters, some white as the moon but all with a big smile on their face.
So I am not sure if "Slip- Slop- Slap" will work up here as well...
Certainly we tend to "slip" shirts OFF and hats are usually not "slopped" on since we just got rid of them after a long winter but maybe "slapping" on the sunscreen is the one advise Scottish people will take.
Wasn't that the title of a song saying "If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it"?...
Maybe we should listen!
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When the sun shines in Scotland the natives react like creatures whose environment has suddenly altered dramatically, and instinct tells them they should do something different but they are not quite sure what. But whatever they do should not do them too much damage, because the clouds and the rain will surely be back soon. For Italians it must seem like a brief interlude of normality. Enjoy (and is it any wonder that the Romans didn't stay in Scotland for very long, what with the weather, and, eh... the Scots?) I love the stone mural I saw in Rome, just a few hundred yards North of the Colosseum, that shows the boundary of the Roman Empire as a line along the "Gask Ridge" in Scotland, which I am looking at now, just two or three miles from my garden. They came this far, stopped for a while, thought "Enough!" and soon headed back home :-)
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