On Friday evening we celebrated the 251st birthday of poet Robert Burns with our Scottish/Manx friends. It is traditional to celebrate with a dinner of lentil soup, haggis, potatoes, and rutabaga sometime around the date of his birth. Whiskey is drunk during the haggis course. The meal starts with the Selkirk blessing and a Burns poem or 2 is recited during the evening. The haggis was smuggled into France from Scotland the day before, the whiskey somehow the perfect accompaniment to it. We have learned that the Scots go all out in their celebration of New Year and that the place to be is in a Scottish castle with dancing on New Year's eve. Maybe next year...............
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