Where to commemorate Burns Night in Scotland and the UK
This short article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK).The very first Burns dinner was kept in 1801, 5 years after the death of Scotland's precious poet, Robert Burns, setting a design template that's stayed mostly the same considering that: music, poetry, food, whisky. Held each year on or around 25 January (the author's birthday), Burns dinners typically start with a reading of his poem, Selkirk Grace, together with a soup such as cullen skink.Next, a plate of haggis is paraded around the space, typically accompanied by a bagpiper, before existing to 'the addresser', who then recites Burns's poem, Address to a Haggis. After a number of courses and lots of whisky-fuelled toasts in between, the night is settled with a rousing performance of Auld Lang Syne. Here's where you c...