Yes, I know many of you are counting the days. Only 21 more sleeps to the big wellie day!
Wellie race aficiandos will surely enjoy the letter below posted to Kilkenny Carlow Community Radio earlier this week. And, it gives you an inside scoop on what is what re. wellie race planning.
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Dear Eimer,
I
understand you are the go to person for the KCLR Live show.
Perhaps
you might be interested in the wellie race in Switzerland. I know
that KCLR Live are great supporters of the Wellie Race in Castlecomer.
1)
See info. below, also as an attachment, on the St. Patrick´s Day
Wellie Race up the Alps.
2) You
will note, the race date has been changed. Previously the race was run
for Valentine´s Day. But, we had complaints from ladies in Switzerland;
it seems unlike Irish men who can be romantic in their wellies every day of the
year (!!), the men in this region found it hard to get into romantic mode in
their wellies. ´Nuff said, shall we say.
3)
We have another problem: The Taytos problem. WE CAN`t get
them! .....
Every
year the race participants get a bag of Taytos, the cultural food of Ireland;
due to flooding and other logistical reasons, we could not get Taytos over from
Ireland this year. We called the TAYTO World headquarters in Ashbourne, but for
´health and safety reasons´ or something they cannot post us our Taytos.
- And that after we said we would pay for them an´ all!
I wonder
if amoung your listnership there is someone who might be coming to the
region of Konstanz on Lake Konstanz in Germany, or St. Gallan in Switzerland
before March 13th. If they could bring us two big bags of Cheese and
Onion Taytos they would save our bacon so to speak. We could reimburse
the person in Swiss Francs, Euros or German sausages.
(No
brown envelopes I am afraid, Chubby in Castlecomer said that is getting to be a
no no now, esp. after a few ´boyos´were caught red handed with brown
envelopes flying around their wind mills and what not.)
I would
be delighted to talk to you about the Wellie Race. With
advance notice I can be available on Fridays all day. In addition I am
available Wednesdays and Thursdays BEFORE 10:00 a.m. Irish time.
And so
to the wellie race info....
The St. Patricks Day Wellie Race up the Alps takes
place:
When: Sunday 13th of March 2016
Where: The Kretz Dairy Farm,
Where: The Kretz Dairy Farm,
Moos,
St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Time: Arrive around 12:30 p.m. The children’s wellie race starts at 1.00 p.m. While the start time is ´a bit´open.
All the fun must end by 4:30 p.m. - before the milking
starts!
The race will be followed by an Irish Céilí Dance - in the Wellies of course.
The race will be followed by an Irish Céilí Dance - in the Wellies of course.
1) To restore stamina after the big wellie run,
grilled genuine German sausages, made in
Switzerland, and hot soup can
be purchased for five Swiss francs, and CHF 2.50 for
children
2) Members of the céilí dancing Broggy family,
world renowned, in some places, will be on hand to teach race participants
and guests the finer points of dancing the Walls of Limerick
in their wellies etc.
3)
Anyone within driving distance of St. Gallen wanting to run up the Alps
in their wellies for St. Patrick’s Day should
contact me at: rosaleencrotty@yahoo.com
4)
For more on our last year’s fun and frolics running up the Alps in our
Wellies see:
5)
More on the world famous (in some places) Castlecomer
Wellie Race, where they have
been
running races in their wellies for over 35 years, check out:
All for
now. I am off to do my first 50 pushups of the day. In the wellies
naturally.
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