Burns Night

Today we’re taking in sweeping views of the Scottish capital, celebrated as “Scotia’s darling seat” by the poet Robert Burns in his 1786 Address to Edinburgh. His birthday, on 25 January 1759, is marked each year with a traditional Burns Supper. While this year’s celebrations will be much smaller scale as lockdown continues, in homes across Scotland families will be observing Burns Night in their own way. Individual celebrations vary but there are some common themes to the evening’s entertainment, including reading the Address to a Haggis - the “great chieftain o’ the pudding race” - and a rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
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