The year’s foremost event for thousands of Highlanders is the National Gaelic Mod, the Scottish equivalent of the Eisteddfod, or the gathering of the Cornish bards at their annual Gorsedd. The birthplace of the National Mod was Oban” and it began in 1890 with the formation of Au Comunn Gaidhealach, the Highland Association for the […]
Beautiful and romantic Edinburgh appears to have been destined to be a superb setting for a great annual international artistic festival. After World War II, within the very short space of a decade, the Festival (the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama) has risen to be a cultural event of the first magnitude in […]
The national Welsh Eisteddfod is devoted to music, literature and the arts. It is a cormpetitive festival and is held in the first week of August. All the proceedings are in the Welsh language. Prizes are awarded for music, for prose and verse, painting and craftwork, for drama and competition is very keen. Many thousands […]
Three times a year according to an Act of Parliament the offices and banks of England are closed on a Monday (Easter Monday, Whit Monday and the last Monday in August) and these are called Bank Holidays. The August Bank Holiday is also called “St Lubbock’s Day’’ because the Act wasdue to the statesman and […]
The pub has evolved over the centuries, always playing an important part in social life. Originally a stopping place for weary travellers, it was then called an inn or tavern and was one of the few places where a traveller could get food, warmth, shelter, and of course a drink. Even in those far-off days […]
The club is a decidedly British institution. It is the sense of a club which is the most obvious feature of the House of Commons. The parliamentarians continue their ritual — dawdling in from the lobby, bowing to the Speaker, exchanging whispers, and speaking as if they were addressing not a nation but a room. […]
There are eight public, or bank holidays in Great Britain, that is, days when banks and offices are closed. They are: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Mayday, Spring Bank Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday. The observance of these days is no longer limited to banks. All the public […]
Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Britain traditions play a more important part in the life of the people than in other countries. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. It has been the law for about three hundred years that all the theatres are […]
The English usually have 4 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea (5 o’clock), and dinner. Breakfast can be a full “English breakfast” of corn flakes with milk and sugar, or bacon and eggs, toast and marmalade, tea or coffee. Some people, however, have just a cup of tea or coffee with a toast. This is […]
The English proverb says: every cook praises his own broth. One can not say English cookery is bad, but there is not a lot of variety in it in comparison with European cuisine. The English are very particular about their meals. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast time is […]
