Global-Trekker.net » United Kingdom http://www.global-trekker.net Global Travel News, Blogs, and Deals Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Picture of the Week: Marauding Vikings Head for Shetland http://www.global-trekker.net/2009/03/picture-of-the-week-marauding-vikings-head-for-shetland/ http://www.global-trekker.net/2009/03/picture-of-the-week-marauding-vikings-head-for-shetland/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:23:22 +0000 admin http://localhost:8888/GoTravelVouchers/2009/03/picture-of-the-week-marauding-vikings-head-for-shetland/ uphellyaa
As they do every year, hordes of Viking “guizers” are set to swarm all over Lerwick, Shetland at the end of this month for a blazing riot of a knees up.

If you thought they’d had enough fire festivals in Scotland during New Years/Hogmanay, you’ve underestimated the Northern taste for flaming celebrations during the long nights of winter. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Shetland – this year on Tuesday, January 26 – is the biggie. This “Viking” revelry is Europe’s biggest fire festival, an amazing spectacle with thousands of participants.

Its connections with the Vikings are really a load of old codswallop but who cares when its such a good excuse for a 24-hour party. Most of the revellers dress up as Vikings but…hang on a minute, don’t I see a mariachi band and some pearly kings in this crowd?

Find out more about Up Helly Aa.

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Picture of the Week: Marauding Vikings Head for Shetland originally appeared on About.com United Kingdom Travel on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 12:14:56.

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Good news just in that chef/owner James Mackenzie of The Pipe and Glass Inn, near Beverley in East Yorkshire, has received a much deserved and overdue Michelin star, the food world’s equivalent of the Queen’s New Year’s Honors List.

I adored the place, loved the food, and think you should book your delightful, romantic and delicious Valentine’s Day lunch there pronto.

Yorkshire-based Elaine Lemm, About.com’s guide to British and Irish Food thinks it’s the best restaurant in Yorkshire.

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Scotland’s favorite poet, Robert Burns celebrated the haggis, one of the country’s most famous dishes, in verses recited annually on Burns’ Night, his birthday, January 25th

At traditional Burns’ Night Suppers on the night, the poem is declaimed with great drama and the haggis is stabbed with a sharp knife, then toasted with many drams of Scotch whisky, before being eaten with neeps and tatties – mashed turnips and potatoes.

A traditional haggis is made from a sheep’s pluck (the stomach) stuffed with all sorts of bits of innards. But, before you go off shrieking in disgust, relax – they make vegetarian versions that you can find online for those of us of a squeamish disposition.

haggis/And, by the way – if you think you’re not a fan of poetry, have never heard any of Robert Burns poetry and certainly have never memorized any, just think back a few days ago to New Year’s Eve. If you sang so much as a chorus of Auld Lang Syne, you were singing Burns’ words.

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