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What to Expect at a Burns Supper

If you’re visiting Scotland this January, you may hear locals talking about attending a Burns Supper, and you may be wondering what on earth that means? Read on to find out what a Burns Supper is all about!

What is a Full Scottish Breakfast?

A full Scottish breakfast, as well as bacon, sausages, fried eggs, baked beans, fried tomatoes and mushrooms, and buttered toast, it also includes black pudding, tattie scones and much more!

14 Scots Words You Need In Your Life

Scots is a language closely linked to English but, while it is mostly intelligible to English speakers, it is distinct enough to have whole dictionaries devoted to it. Here are 14 of our favourites scots words.

Celebrating Hogmanay in Edinburgh

New Year’s Eve, or Auld Year’s Night, or Hogmanay is one of the biggest celebrations of the year in Edinburgh and the biggest deal for many people. There are events taking place over several days around New Year!

What to do on a day-trip to Linlithgow

Linlithgow is a lovely Scottish town, about twenty minutes travel from Edinburgh, complete with a loch and the ruins of a royal palace. The town is the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, possibly Scotland’s most famous monarch.

What to do on a day-trip to North Berwick

For quite a small town, North Berwick is absolutely packed with history. Most famously, the St Andrew’s Auld Kirk is the site where dozens of Scottish witches supposedly met with the devil himself to try to bring down a curse on the King of Scotland at the time.