Is New Years Eve a big celebration in other countries beside the US ?

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I know I don't have to go far to ask ! Our great friends at the SF located in other countries have the answer :).
 

In Australia ever since I was a teen it has been Party Time. New Years Day was another family feast or a good day for a picnic.
It is also a day of cleaning up the mess left behind in public places, including revellers who passed out before the dawn.
 
If you can get Alba TV it always has a good evening
on Hogmanay, it is in either Gaelic (with subtitles in
English), or English, tonight will be in English.

Tonight will be a Ceilidh, which is just a good party
with singing and dancing.

Alba is a BBC station and is available through the
BBC iPlayer.

Mike.
 
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yes it's Huge in my country as Mike has said above... but here in England not so much. We'll be having the Usual enormous Firework celebrations in the city tonight, and the usual millions of people in Trafalgar square...but nothing more special than that in the rest of England ..whereas the whole of Scotland goes all out to have the best time, it's a much bigger deal than Christmas.. the celebrations can go on for days and often do...


Hogmany celebrations in Scotland


 
Capt Lightning said:
Mike, surely you mean a Ceilidh. Caileigh is a girl's name meaning 'slender'. (although the pronounciation is much the same)
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Sorry Captain, I have been away too long, thank you
for pointing that out.

I will go and correct it now.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

Mike.
 
No problem Mike.. I lived for most of my time in Hampshire and was in danger of becoming a 'Southern softie' if I hadn't moved back north:)
I'm afraid that I don't go in for Ceilidh or such he like. My parents were far more inclined to 'observe' rather than celebrate Hogmanay, though we always had a 'first foot' and a dram to see in the new year.

Tae us!
Wha's like us?
Damn few and they're a' deid.
 
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