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...spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Where to Celebrate | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...winter and the return of the sun. The biggest celebration is in Lerwick, the capital, on the last Tuesday in January; this year it's Jan. 31. Last year, 51 Vikings wearing blue velvet tunics, winged helmets and sealskin capes cheered and wielded their axes as they dragged their longship through Lerwick's streets. Behind them, cannibals with necklaces of fake teeth, pirates and fat ballerinas were among the nearly 900 guisers: men in costume bearing flaming torches whose deep voices bellow out over the brass band, "Let us ne'er forget the race,/ Who bravely fought and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pillage People | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder longship through Lerwick's streets. Behind them, cannibals with necklaces of fake teeth, pirates and fat ballerinas were among the nearly 900 guisers: men in costume bearing flaming torches whose deep voices bellow out over the brass band, "Let us ne'er forget the race,/ Who bravely fought and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pillage People | 1/5/2006 | See Source »

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