Hogmanay, Edinburgh's New Year's celebration, may not be the biggest celebration on Earth, the hippest or, for that matter, the warmest, but it is absolutely the most enjoyable. On New Year's Eve the gothic alleyways of the creaking city fill with revelers dancing to traditional fiddle and bagpipe music and kilted, intoxicated men attempting somber recitations of the poetry of Robert Burns.
Everyone is cursing the English while speaking a local brand of unintelligible English and buying each other orders of Scotch. A friendly chaos reigns and the local police do very little to rein it in.
This year, the Scotman reports that 75,000 people are expected to "attend" the city's street party, by which the organizers surely mean stagger into central Edinburgh after hopping barricades and grabbing ceremonial torches. With this many bodies in the street, everyone and anyone is likely to get a kiss at night. Local tradition dictates a certain degree of tongue-less promiscuity, so pecks are handed out by the bushel.
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