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Our History

Our History “Caledonian Club to be formed in Bermuda” read a front-page headline in the November 20, 1936 edition of The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily. The meeting on November 29, St. Andrew’s Eve, at the Inverurie Hotel in Paget, was held to form a club and discuss its aims and objectives. All those who…

May 24, 2020adminAboutCaledonaian Society of bermuda, History

The Caledonian Society of Bermuda
(Registered Charity #896)
was formed on November 29, 1936
to share and promote the rich
traditions and culture of Scotland
within Bermuda.

Just for Fun

You know you’re an expatriated Scot in Bermuda when:

• you regularly lament the lack of chip shops.

• you were forwarded the article about the Buckfast ban in Bermuda by everyone you know at home.

• you regularly make a special trek to Lindo’s and/or Miles, even if you live nowhere near them, just to pick up supplies of Irn Bru and Tunnock’s Teacakes.

• you smirk to yourself when anyone complains about the Bermuda weather during a three-minute downpour.

• you regularly have to explain your vocabulary because nobody knows what numpty, eejit, or square-go means.

• even if you normally hate the Proclaimers, Runrig, Deacon Blue, Big Country, etc, you feel a swell of pride when they are played in a Bermuda bar.

• regardless of how long you’ve lived here, you turn into some sort of half-human/half-lobster creature for the first few weeks of summer.

• when someone mentions “Sunday breakfast” you think of square sausages and black pudding before codfish and potatoes.

• you think of House of India as a taste of home.

• you lie when anyone asks you what’s in haggis.

• you get tired of people asking where in Ireland you’re from.