Scotland

Scotland lies in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s the northern part of Great Britain. The biggest cities of Scotland are Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Glasgow is the biggest of the cities. It was famous as a big industrial centre. Today it’s famous of many theatres and arts galleries. Scotland is known for it’s traditions, whisky, music and special food, which all are great attractions for tourists.

Scotland’s landscape is very attractive. There are wild mountains, heaths and moors and deep lakes called lochs in the northern part of Scotland. Some people believe that there is a big strange monster in the lake Loch Ness. It’s called the Loch Ness monster. Some people say that they have seen it. Tourists come every year there to see the monster but the monster doesn’t show itself. On the edge of the lake there is a special Loch Ness Monster Exhibition centre that people can visit.

In the north of Scotland live few people. Some of them speak the Scottish Gaelic language. Most of the people live in the Lowlands. Farmers in Scotland keep a lot of sheep on the hillsides.

All true Scots belong to a clan or a tribe. Each of them has their own tartan. It’s a traditional woollen cloth over the shoulder. Nowadays there are a lot of tartan shops in Scotland, which sell cloth, kilts, scarves, bags, travelling rugs, and dresses in tartan patterns. Sometimes they offer people the service of finding out which part of Scotland their great-grand parents came from.

Scotland’s greatest poet Robert Burns, who’s dead by now, had birthday on 25^th January. People all over the world celebrate that day by having Burns’ Night Dinners. On that night people drink whisky, eat typical Scottish food such as haggis and listen to bagpipe music. There is a special poem to haggis, which they read when they put the dish on the table.

Popular song from Burns is “Auld Lang Syne”. It was popular in Britain before Burns, but people started singing it at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

When I go to Scotland, then I want to see the Loch Ness Monster and Scotland’s magnificent landscape.

Autor Liina Teppor