Tour Scotland 4K Winter Solstice outdoor travel video, with beautiful Scottish music, of a short walk below the Christmas Lights along the High Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire. Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828. During the later medieval period the city was also called St John's Toun or Saint Johnstoun by its inhabitants in reference to the main church dedicated to St John the Baptist. Christmas lights, also known informally as fairy lights, are lights used for decoration in preparation for Christmas and for display throughout Christmastide. The custom goes back to the use of candles to decorate the Christmas tree in Christian homes in early modern Germany. The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, USA. More restrictions could be introduced before Christmas in response to the new Omicron variant. Scots have been asked to limit socialising to three households at a time during the run up to Christmas Day. The winter solstice of 2021 occurs today on Dec. 21, 2021, marking the official beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and it brings good news: From tomorrow on, days will start getting longer again, taking us out of the darkness as we slowly head towards Spring. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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