The Sunday after Christmas was spent traveling to Scotland after a fairly quiet day in Manchester we flew (not a huge distace but still able to fly the 40 minutes air time). My parents picked us up at Edinburgh to drive the 60 minutes back to the house. Sunday night was fairly quiet.
Monday saw us have a roast with the family, my sister and her husband came over to join us and we all opened Christmas presents for a second day over the 2 weeks. I guess that is one advantage about our parents living so far apart.
New Years eve or hogmanay as its known in Scotland is the big celebration. Having borrowed dads car we headed off to meet up with Doug (one of my Scouting friends) at his flat in Glasgow where we had tickets for the New Years party there in Georges Square. After a beautiful full roast and quite a few beers we headed out into the cold to bring in the New Year with up to 15,000 people, live music, fireworks and also a few more beers that were served up out of a Platapus drinking devise as not glass bottles or cans were allowed in the street party.
Once the fireworks had gone off and as the music started to wind down we headed back to the flat to play on the Wii and have some sausage rolls. Then as we were all flagging a well earned sleep.
The Thursday (New Years day) was spent visiting my Gran and Uncle after a full Scottish breakfast (although we had link rather than square sausage but haggis was on the menu) before heading back to my parents for a few days.
On the Sunday we headed back to Manchester before I dealt with train delays and cancelations to get me back to the south of the country on the Monday.
Tuesday was back to work and the groups Christmas lunch.
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