Grampian
Direct flights to Aberdeen Airport are available daily from all parts of the UK and Ireland including London, Manchester and Birmingham. Short haul, charter and scheduled flights travel to destinations across Europe. Scandinavian destinations are also well served with flights. Connecting flights onwards to Aberdeen for transatlantic and further international destinations can be arranged at most UK and European hub airports including London, Manchester, Glasgow and Amsterdam. Dundee Airport has Scotair flights to London City Airport. Internal flights are an important means of travel within Scotland. Destinations available from Aberdeen to Highlands & Islands Airports include Kirkwall, the Shetlands, Sumberg and Wick. Aberdeen is the busiest Heliport in Britain sees more than 40 helicoptor flights a week serving the North Sea oil fields. To travel by ferry you can sail into the port of Rosyth from Belgium for a leisurely journey from Europe or disembark at any of the English ports and travel by road, train or fly onwards to a Scottish airport if time is limited. Trains travel to the main stations at Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee either direct from London, Kings Cross or with a change at Edinburgh. Overnight sleeper train services are a popular and restful way to travel to the North East of Scotland. Driving to, and around, the Grampian area is easy and pleasurable with good roads and light traffic in most parts. From the south, the A90 is the main road to Aberdeen while the A9 travels cross country inland between Perth and Inverness via Pitlochry. The A90 coast road links Perth to Dundee, the A92 continues north up the coast through Arbroath, Montrose, Stonehaven, Fraserburgh to Nairn. |
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June 21st - July 4th 2009 |
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2009 marks the 250th anniversary of Scottish poet Robert Burns' birth. Burns was a poet and a lyricist and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
The Burns Supper was started a few years after his death by a group of his friends; they held the supper to honour and remember Burns. The tradition caught on and the ritual of Burns Supper is now held all around the world.
His life and work will be celebrated throughout the year at many Burns-related events.
The Ashes
Another two years has passed and it's time for England to go head to head with Australia for another series of test cricket. To date, a total of 64 series have been played with Australia winning 31 and England 28 with 5 draws. Will the Australian's retain the Ashes yet again this year?
