The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is an annual celebration held from March 3rd to May 7th in the Speyside region of Scotland. The festival celebrates Scotch whisky through distillery tours, tastings, food fairs, theater, comedy and live music events. Visitors can experience whisky making demonstrations and participate in tastings, tours, rail excursions and gala dinners during the festival. The Hogmanay Festival is Scotland's New Year's celebration held each year on December 31st. The festivities start in the evening and peak at midnight with singing, bells, kissing and good wishes. The roots of the celebration date back to Viking fire and sun worship traditions

1. SCOTLAND

2. Spirit of Speyside
Whisky Festival
 The good whiskey is created in Scotland, but in
spring, 3 to May 7 there will be whiskey for
everyone in the Speyside area of Forres and
Grantown - on-Spey, in the west of Elgin and
Fochavers.

3. This annual celebration is called Spirit of
Speyside Whisky Festival, unique tours are
offered by different distilleries and tasting
something that tourists can not see normally.
There are also local food fairs, theater. comedy,
all related to this drank Scotch.
In fact at night in Speyside not rest and at
various taverns and pubs you can enjoy music
in DIRECO making the most fun festival in
which the whole town.

4.  During the festival of whiskey, a joyous ode to
the Scottish national drink, you can visit most
of these distilleries, plus also participate in
tasting sessions, tours, rail routes, gala dinners
a ceilidh, traditional live music, exhibitions,
demonstrations of kilt making ... A paradise for
lovers of whiskey and much more than you can
imagine.

5. Hogmanay Festival
 The Hogmanay Festival is essentially a New Year
celebration with a dash of Scottish flair. This festival
takes place on the 31st of December every year and is
phenomenally well supported and raucous.
Hogmanay generally starts quite early in the evening,
reaching its peak as expected at midnight with the
ringing of bells, the singing of the old folk song "Auld
Lang Syne" and plenty of good wishes, accompanied
by kissing, being showered on all and sundry.

6.  This celebration dates back as far as the Vikings.
Its roots are found in the pagan practice of fire and
sun worship during the dark months of winter

7. With participants carrying
flaming torches, the parade heads
along the Royal Mile and onto
Calton Hill, where a replica
Viking longship is set alight. You
can purchase a torch to carry in
the parade, though you’ll need to
pick up a voucher ahead of time to
claim one. The following night –
30 December – is the suitably
titled ‘Night Afore’, featuring a
street arts carnival and more live
music than you can poke a
bagpipe at. New Year’s Eve is
when Hogmanay truly explodes
into life, with Edinburgh’s city
centre becoming a gigantic street
party where you can dance, sing,
drink and don a kilt to see in the
coming year.