For sheer scale, no show in Scotland can rival the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Literally hundreds of performers, both from Scotland and bands and organisations from abroad, gather under the dramatic backdrop of Edinburgh Castle to perform on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade to sell out capacity crowds. The series of Military Tattoo displays combines breathtaking shows of military precision, featuring a battle re-enactment, military bands, including the mass pipes and drums.
This year’s 2009 Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which started on Friday 7th August and finishes on Saturday 29th August 2009 celebrates its 60th season, while paying tribute to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, and playing its part in Homecoming Scotland. The 2009 Edinburgh Tattoo features the Massed Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, His Majesty The King’s Guards Band and Drill Team of Norway, the Massed Pipes & Drums and The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, and acts from Australia, the United States, Canada and the Far East, along with Massed Highland Dancers and the Lone Piper.
2009 Edinburgh Military Tattoo times – BST
Monday – Friday: 9.00pm to 10.30pm
Saturday Matinee: 7.30pm to 9.00pm
Saturday Evening: 10.30pm to Midnight
Enjoy live webcam coverage of the 2009 Edinburgh Military Tattoo by viewing the below Edinburgh Military Tattoo web cam. The Edinburgh Tattoo webcam is overlooking the main Edinburgh Tattoo arena on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade. The Ed Tattoo cam also shows great live cam views overlooking the entrance to Edinburgh Castle.
The 138th Open Golf Championship starts on the Ailsa Links golf course, Turnberry in Ayrshire, Scotland, on Thursday 16th July – Sunday 19th July 2009.
The world’s top golfers, including Tiger Woods, defending Open Champion, Padraig Harrington, Ernie Els, Greg Norman will do battle over one of the world’s best Links courses, The Par 70, 7,204 yards golf course, The Ailsa at Turnberry in Ayrshire in Scotland to try to win one of golf’s most famous and coveted titles, The 2009 British Golf Open Champion.
Enjoy live streaming webcam views, in the Scottish Highlands, overlooking the majestic Glencoe mountains, Ballachulish Bridge and Loch Lihhne in the west coast of the Scottish Highlands.
If you book a room, or a wedding, or a luch or dinner in the top class restaurant at the Onich hotel, which is located in the small village of Onich, only a few minutes drive from Fort William, you will witness first hand, in the real world, these spectacular live webcam views overlooking the Glencoe Mountains, Ballachulish Bridge and Loch Lihhne from the Onich hotel.
The Onich hotel, located near to Fort William, is really well worth a visit in the real world. A wonderful Scottish Highlands hotel to stay a few nights at, great lunches and dinners in their top rated restaurant. A nice place to enjoy a drink at their hotel bar while witnessing at first hand the magnificent Scottish Highland views.
TheOnich hotel has built up a first class reputation as a leading Scottish Highlands wedding venue. Many wedding couples have made their wedding, a little bit extra special, by holding their weddings at the Onich hotel and Lochside Gardens. TheOnich hotel hold a wedding licence to hold civil ceremonies in the hotel premises for couples wanting to get married in the scenic surroundings of the Scottish Highlands. The hotel also has a wedding marquee on the banks of Loch Lihhne which allows wedding couples to have larger wedding receptions for their special wedding day at the Onich hotel
Webcam fans around the world were given a VERY special St Valentines day treat when Nessie, the world famous Loch Ness monster was 100% clearly spotted swimming in front of the historic Urquhart castle area of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands on the morning of the 14th February 2009 – St Valentines Day.
The first filmed footage, via a live streaming webcam, clearly shows that the world famous Loch Ness monster, Nessie, really does exist and is still alive and swimming in the cold and murky waters of Loch Ness. More important, for Nessie fans, the Loch Ness monster still looks in remarkably good health when spotted live on a streaming video cam overlooking Loch Ness.
For many years, there has been great debates if the Loch Ness monster really does exist. Now in this very rare and special webcam footage all Loch Ness monster doubters will have to believe that Nessie, the Lochness monster, is not just a legend, or a myth, but is indeed a `real` creature. The webcam recorded video footage clearly shows that Nessie is `real1 See below recorded webcam footage.
The success of the Loch Ness webcam catching a rare sighting of the Loch Ness monster was reported to have nearly ground the World Wide Web to a halt. Many millions of Internet visitors from all over the globe tried to view the live Loch Ness webcam at the same time to catch a real-time glimpse of Nessie the Loch Ness monster. Luckily the Loch Ness monster only made a 15 minute live appearance on the Lochness webcam which resulted that the World Wide Web didn’t collapse with the sheer visitor numbers.
Great excitement is mounting in Scotland as the new 2008/2009 haggis hunting season is about to start. On Sunday the 30th November 2008 at 12 noon, St Andrew’s Day, haggis hunters are allowed to start hunting on the hills and mountains of Scotland to try and catch Scotland’s national creature – the haggis.
Because the Scottish haggis is now such a rare animal breed, the Scottish Parliament passed a new Scottish law to reduce the official haggis hunting season dates to now only last a few weeks. In order to ensure that haggis don’t become an extinct animal in Scotland. Now the official haggis hunt season starts on the 30th November, St Andrew’s Day, to Burns Night on January 25th. This was the first law that was passed by the new Scottish Parliament when devolution was launched in Scotland. Many voters in Scotland still think that this new law introduced by the Scottish Parliament to protect the famous Scottish haggis animal species is still to this day the most important legislation that the Scottish Goverment has ever passsed since the start of devolution. And the new haggis hunting law enjoyed full cross party support!!!
The start of the Haggis Hunting season is one of Scotland’s most traditional and popular events to celebrate St Andrew’s Day for the people of Scotland. Scot’s people, male and female, of all ages, all shapes and sizes, celebrate St Andrew’s Day by putting on their wellies and haggis hunting gear and climb hills and mountains all over Scotland to try and catch the elusive Scottish beasties – the Haggis. Haggis Hunting on St Andrew’s Day is still a very traditional family event in Scotland. And a great way to keep fit.
Unfortunately the Scottish haggis was over hunted in the 19th and 20th Century making the haggis a very rare breed. To even spot a haggis, on St Andrew’s Day, on a hill or mountain in Scotland, is now a very unusual event. More chance to see the Lochness monster than the elusive Scottish haggis. However, families all over Scotland, North, South, East and West still take part in hunting haggis on the hills and mountains of Scotland to carry on with this great and historic St Andrew’s Day tradition that marks the start of the new Haggis Hunting season. After a St Andrew’s Day haggis hunt it’s traditional for the haggis hunters to meet up with their families, relatives and friends at nightime to enjoy a special St Andrew’s meal or a ceilidh to celebrate the start of the new haggis hunt season.
In the 21st century, with the aid of technology, haggis hunting has now gone online. To allow millions of Scot’s Expats, who live all over the world, to still have the opportunity to carry on with their Scottish family tradition, online, no matter where they live in the globe. Log onto HaggisHunt.com and carry on with the Scottish tradition of hunting haggis on St Andrew’s Day. Remember, the new haggis hunting season finishes on Burns night, 25th January 2009. So enjoy your online haggis hunt by viewing haggis cams all over Scotland. There’s even a haggis cam on Leicester Square in London as well as Times Square in New York in case the haggis have migrated to other countries to avoid being captured, killed and eaten. Have a good chance to win a prize if you spot a haggis on one of the 10 haggis web cams. Good luck with hunting haggis online. Have a great St Andrews Day.
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the most spectacular show of its type in the world. The Edinburgh Tattoo is the largest outdoor event in Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, and attracts an annual attendance throughout the Edinburgh Festival of 217,000 spectators in the month of August. The Edinburgh Tattoo also enjoys a worldwide television audience of over 100 million viewers.
The 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrates over 50 years of music and spectacle set against the historic backdrop of the floodlit Edinburgh Castle. Performers from the Massed Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, His Majesty the King’s Guards Band and Drill Team of Norway, the celebrated Massed Pipes and Drums and The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Other 2008 Edinburgh Tattoo acts performing at the 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo are from the United States, Australia, Canada and the Far East, along with Massed Highland Dancers and the finale of the Lone Piper. (more…)
Sunday the 3rd of August 2008 will see the Edinburgh Festival Calvalcade taking place in the city centre of Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Festival Sunday Calvalcade marks the start of the world famous Edinburgh Festival. Over 3,000 performers will be taking part in the 2008 Festival Calvalcade which starts at 2.30 pm, Sunday afternoon BST and will be parading along Edinburgh’s Princes Street. A crowd of over 100,000 people are expected to attend and spectate at the Edinburgh Festival Show opening event. (more…)
Camvista is operating a new Gretna wedding cam at Gretna Green in Scotland. This wedding webcam is overlooking the Blacksmiths Courtyard at Gretna Green. There are three wedding rooms at the Blacksmiths Courtyard. The world famous Blacksmiths Workshop, the Linton wedding room and the Blacksmith Cottage wedding room. Over 4,500 couples get married every year at the three wedding rooms at the Blacksmiths Courtyard. Many of the weddings at Gretna Green take place on Friday afternoons and at various times throughout Saturdays. (more…)
