Tour Scotland Video Reindeer Winter Festival City Centre Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Reindeer at the Winter Festival on visit to the City Centre on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In traditional festive legend, Santa Claus's reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The commonly cited names of the eight reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. They are based on those used in the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, commonly called The Night Before Christmas, arguably the basis of the reindeers' popularity. The reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, also known as caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
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Tour Scotland Video Early Winter Drive North On A9 Road Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of part of an early Winter road trip drive North on the A9 road to near Bruar on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Sleet and snow showers, cold with a widespread frost today. The A9 is a major road running from central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 miles, it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth longest A road in the United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. Drive with great care and patience on this road as it regularly appears in lists of Scotland's most dangerous roads.
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Tour Scotland Video Early Winter Drive South Of Ben Vrackie Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of part of an early Winter road trip drive on a single track road South of Ben Vrackie mountain on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Ben Vrackie, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn a' Bhreacaidh; sometimes anglicised as Ben Y Vrackie, is located North of the town of Pitlochry and reaches 2,759 feet high at its summit. The summit may be reached easily by a direct path from Pitlochry or Killiecrankie, and commands views of Pitlochry and the surrounding glens. Ben Vrackie translates as " speckled mountain " and comes from a time when white quartz rocks were scattered across its slopes. Ben Vrackie is also important for its ornithological interest. This is largely a result of the site’s extensive heathland which provides suitable habitat for a number of moorland breeding birds, including wheatear, stonechat, snipe and red grouse as well as the larger birds of prey often associated with upland moors including, golden eagle, buzzards, hen harriers, merlin, peregrine and short eared owls.
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Tour Scotland Video Early Winter Drive Glen Quaich Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of part of an early Winter road trip drive on the single track road, with passing places, through Glen Quaich on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Glen Quaich gets its name from the River Quaich which runs through it into Loch Freuchie. The clearances in Breadalbane, did not occur until the 1830’s, under the command of the Second Marquis of Breadalbane. In 1835, the factor, James Wyllie, had cleared the entire population of Glenquaich, with most Scots in the Glen taking flight by sea and populating lands in the new world, including the Huron settlement in Western Ontario and North Easthope, County of Perth, Ontario, Canada. There, they settled with other families from Amulree, Auchnafauld, Aberfeldy and Kenmore. All areas covered by the events of the 1830 clearances.
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Tour Scotland Video Early Winter Sunset Loch Tay Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland early Winter video of sunset reflections in the water of Loch Tay, a freshwater loch in the central highlands, on ancestry visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Sunset at 15:59 on Wednesday, 22 November 2017. Ben Lawers on its north shore is, at 3,983 feet, is the tenth highest mountain in the British Isles. The loch is a popular spot for salmon fishing, and many of its surroundings feature in the traditional Scottish Loch Tay Boat Song.
When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below
She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo
Nighean ruadh, your lovely hair
Has more beauty I declare
Than all the tresses fair
From Killin to Aberfeldy
Be they lint-white, gold or brown
Be they blacker than the sloe
They mean not as much to me
As a melting flake of snow
And her dance is like the gleam
Of the sunlight on the stream
And the songs the wee folk sing
They're the songs she sings at milking
But my heart is full of woe
For last night she bade me go
And the tears begin to flow
As I sing hori horo
When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below
She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo
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