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to light fireworks as well.
The pub closes but the party continues
After the bells the party continued and I
have to admit that I was really having fun,
but then I heard the bar shouting for last
orders. I looked at the time, it was not even
two o’clock and I felt very disappointed that
the night was about to end. Then, over my
shoulder, I heard someone talking about a
party. When we got outside I followed the
crowd and it turned out that all the youngsters
were going to an after party. It was at
the other end of the village in a big house
where their parents were obviously out of
town. This might as well be in Denmark, I
thought to myself, as the party continued
with chattering, drinking and a little more
dancing. It was almost six o’clock when I
found myself leaving the party to go to bed
after a surprisingly fun night.
First footing
Traditionally one of the major Hogmanay
customs was for neighbours to visit each
other bearing gift shortly after the bells
struck at midnight to wish good luck in the
New Year. Even though this tradition, called
first footing, has faded it still exists in this
small village. Although today the villagers
mainly go first footing during the day on the
first of January. This might be a great tradition
but not when you are lying in bed with
a terrible hangover and have to get up and
greet people. All I wanted was to lie on the
couch watching the ski jump on TV like most
other Danes would be doing this day. After a
breakfast pint though, locally known as “hair
of the dog”, everything suddenly seemed
better and as we got ready to go first footing
ourselves I wondered if this drinking
would continue all day. And it turned out
that it was as we were greeted with drinks
and pints when arriving at people’s houses
along the way.
A three day drinking marathon
When we finally went down the pub I was
surprised to see that it was just as crowded
as the night before. Another local musician
was playing and it seemed as if the
party had just continued. I spotted a group
of local youngsters across the room all
dressed in wet suits with ski goggles and
helmets and very red eyes. I remembered
them from the party last night and appar-
ently they had not been to bed and in their
drunken state had decided to dress up.
As I started to feel the effect of the alcohol
I prepared myself for yet another night
of merry celebration with the locals and
started worrying about how I would be able
to manage another day of partying the following
day, as the second of January also
includes drinking and live music at the pub.
The Scottish Hogmanay turned out to be a
three day drinking marathon where you get
totally wasted all day for three days.
After having experienced, and survived,
a real Scottish Hogmanay, commerciel’s
reporter makes her judgement; definitely
fun, but hard on your health. So, if you have
a problem with your liver or if you are not
able to drink for three days in a row, you
will have a hard time celebrating Hogmanay
in the real Scottish way. But our reporter is
not in doubt; this will not be her last trip to
the Scottish highlands around the time of
Hogmanay.
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