The remote Scottish island that celebrates Christmas and New Year nearly two weeks late
dailyrecord.co.ukWhile the majority of Scots will be busy planning out their Hogmanay celebrations, the inhabitants of one Scottish island won't be thinking about the holiday for another two weeks.Foula is an island located 20 miles west of the Shetland Mainland, and one of the UK's most remote permanently inhabited islands.
It has a population of just 30, with no shops or pubs.The people who live on Foula follow the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar, which the rest of the UK adopted in 1752.
As a result, it is now 12 days behind mainland Scotland.This means that the island's inhabitants celebrate Christmas on January 6 and New Year's Day on January 13.
Being so cut off from the rest of the UK, residents preserve many Norse traditions and were the last known speakers of the Norn language.On Christmas Day, the population all gather in a single house to give presents.
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