The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is an annual celebration held from March 3rd to May 7th in the Speyside region of Scotland. During the festival, visitors can tour many local distilleries and participate in tastings, tours, rail excursions, dinners, and traditional Scottish music and dancing. It offers a unique opportunity to experience whisky production and local culture. The Hogmanay Festival is Scotland's New Year's celebration held each December 31st. Events include a torchlight parade on Calton Hill where a replica Viking ship is set alight, followed the next day by a street carnival with live music. New Year's Eve sees Edinburgh's city center transformed into a massive

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.