For three weeks in August and September GalGael recieved twelve German visitors from Berlin. The group consisted of young unemployed men from Projekt PiA and and young single mothers from Projekt L.I.S.A. along with some staff from both organisations. The young guys were stationed up in Argyll and carried out some work on the track at Barmaddy Farm and built a bridge across the burn next to the house. They fell in love with the scenery and history so much they didn't want to do the Glasgow half of the visit. Luckily, the LISA girls loved Glasgow too, and were quite happy to carry on at the GalGael workshop. They put in a great shift making a mast for our boat "Elizabeth" and got a chance to do some carving, felting and welding too.
On the last day of their visit we held a wee ceilidh in the front shop and the Berliners did a mean "strip the willow" that any Scot would be proud of. They also got to meet the Deputy First Minister and celebrate the birthdays of Gehan and Tartan Heather.
They were a lovely bunch of people and great fun too. A few would have been happy to stay and they will always be welcome if they would like to come back. Hopefully, we will be able to send a few Govanites to Berlin in the near future.
Many thanks to Jimi the Pyper playing his "doodlesack" for the occasion, to Anneruth for translating, and to Daniel in Kruezburg for sorting things out at the Berlin end.
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