Scotland - Customs and Traditions - What exactly is a Haggis? How do you catch them? Kilts, bagpipes, Highland Games and much more.....
Unique Scotland19 Jun 2020

Scotland - Customs and Traditions - What exactly is a Haggis? How do you catch them? Kilts, bagpipes, Highland Games and much more.....

The Customs and Traditions of Scotland cover a large range of activities and clothing as well as music and strange eating habits. Kilts, bagpipes, tossing the caber and eating haggis are just some of the extraordinary Customs and Traditions of Scotland, a small but wonderful country with more sheep than people! If you want to know why an enormous kilted Scotsman would want to throw a tree trunk across a field, then do listen. What exactly is a haggis and how can you catch one? Where does the Scots Tartan originate? It is all here in this Podcast.

You will hear some traditional Scottish music and discover the origins of the Highland Games as well as the Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo. There's much, much more so do listen in to be tickled pink about this proud but strange race - the Scots

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