Events around Scotland
Edinburgh Christmas
Edinburgh’s Christmas Website
One of Europe’s finest Christmas festivals returns with a month-long programme bringing warmth and festive cheer to Edinburgh as the city transforms itself into a magical winter wonderland. Activity is centred around the world-renowned Princes Street Gardens and includes an outdoor ice rink and Ferris wheel.
The Nevis Range Mountain Experience
Skiing, snowboarding, sledging and mountain biking at Scotlands’ newest ski area.
Christmas lunch is served in the restaurants between 22 & 26 December (exc 25 Dec) and there is a torchlight procession down the slopes on the 10th January.
Supersonic Christmas at the National Museum of Flight
The National Museum of Flight Website
Discover the extraordinary story of our human ambition to take to the skies. East Fortune played an important role as an airfield during two World Wars. Now the National Museum of Flight hangars are packed with aircraft that reveal how flight developed from the Wright brothers to Concorde.
Museum opens between November-March each weekend from 10am-4pm.
Admission (including Concorde boarding pass): Adult: £8.50; Concessions: £6.50; Child 12 and under free.
From 19-24 December, entry for children is £5 and includes a gift from Santa.