If youse don't, you can-- don't-- go for a pint in the 'Spoons and that before you go through to security and all that, eh?
Euan:
It's the pub, eh, it's the pub where [name] was like that "gimme a pint of your strongest--"
Jordan:
Is it? At the top of the escalator?
Euan:
"you're strongest-- gimme your strongest drink!"
Jordan:
And then it-- what was it? Tequila?
Euan:
Aye.
Jordan:
He goes "okay, just a pint of Tennents, please."
Euan:
"Gimme a pint of Tennents then please."
Jordan:
Pure brass neck.
Euan:
Just where the-- ken where the Celtic store was? We went in last time?
Jordan:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
Which airport's that?
Jordan:
Glasgow.
Euan:
Glasgow International.
Interviewer:
So, it's no-- Do you have to stop somewhere, halfway?
Euan:
Mhm.
Interviewer:
Where?
Euan:
Dubai.
Interviewer:
Do you get to see it a bit?
Euan:
You get-- no.
Jordan:
We didn't the last time, eh? But he-- he's gonna be there longer this time.
Euan:
But aye-- aye, no much longer. Em, you get the-- you get the choice, really, but, like, see the-- the option we got last time was either an hour or eight hours and that's not enough to see anything, so.
Jordan:
We just like-- we had to-- like, we literally had to run, get off one plane, run through the whole airport, Dubai airport, and get on another one.
Interviewer:
I remember before youse went you told me that that's what it was gonna be and it was just-- 'cause are they not like-- it's like-- it's like, huge?
Jordan:
But-- Yeah. It is.
Euan:
Oh aye. It's the biggest-- one of the biggest airports in the world I think.
Older speakers
Alasdair:
And me going back there after a' the years, you know? It was-- I was-- and I-- I got all excited, you know, "oh, I mind of this and I mind of that." And that was my--
Ian:
Well, that's a long-- mhm.
Alasdair:
"See that there, that was my room. I slept in there, that was my room." And the officer's mess, it's now turned in to the museum.
Ian:
Mhm.
Alasdair:
Like, where the kitchen I worked in was the officer's mess
Ian:
Mhm.
Alasdair:
and they've-- it's all changed now into the museum. And I said "oh, this was my kitchen. This was my kitchen." You know?
Ian:
Mhm. Yeah. Yeah.
Alasdair:
"Get oot of my kitchen! Get oot of my kitchen!" Aye. And the boy was-- the boy on the door was fair amazed that I had been there.
Ian:
Well, you would be, aye.
Alasdair:
And I was telling him a' aboot-- and they were fair amazed wi it. I was telling a lot of the guys that was there on the door and people that were looking after it, ken, what the place looked like then and they were-- they were over the moon that I could tell them all that.
Ian:
They would be 'cause there-- there's no that many people could be--
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Alasdair:
I says "across the road there was the kitchens for the batallion." And they-- they couldnae believe the things I-- that I was telling them, that they didnae know the kitchens were across there at the--
Ian:
No.
Alasdair:
Ken, opposite the officers mess.
Ian:
There's naybody around to tell them though [name]. Naybody around to tell them. Aye. Mhm brilliant, aye.
Alasdair:
And I could tell them a' that, you know? Yeah.
Interviewer:
Is that the first time you'd been there since--
Alasdair:
That was the first time I'd been there in-- that was what? Last year? Or was it a year afore? Two year ago now?
Ian:
Be a couple-- be a couple of years ago-- be a couple of years ago because I can remember them, you know, talking aboot it and that.
Alasdair:
Well, [name] enjoyed it that much he's wanting to go back again.
Ian:
Aye, I can imagine he would. Aye.
Alasdair:
Ken, the museum. You could spend-- in the museum you could spend the whole day.
