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612a Inland West Coast Roadtrips; Making Scottish Music; Oddball English Festivals

Travel with Rick Steves

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Jim and Susie Malcolm, the Loch Tea Boat Song

Jim and Susie Malcolm live on the river T in Perth, an upstream is a big lake or loch that the tea emerges from. There's a beautiful song called the loch tea boat song about a young man who's rowing across this wonderful water. But it's hard to broken because he has been spurned by the knee and the the gurl, but the red here. It actually mentions the year 1891 which is right bang in the middle of the era of the Bothie ballot.

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