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The free UK festival this month that’s nicknamed the ‘northern Mardi Gras’

FORGET the musical main stage and trudging through fields of mud for entertainment, this is a festival like no other. Featuring lots of fire, this celebration has torchlit processions and the burning of a replica Viking ship. The Shetland Islands have celebrated Up Helly Aa since the 1800s and have even dubbed it the ‘northern…

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The free UK festival this month that’s nicknamed the ‘northern Mardi Gras’

FORGET the musical main stage and trudging through fields of mud for entertainment, this is a festival like no other. Featuring lots of fire, this celebration has torchlit processions and the burning of a replica Viking ship. The Shetland Islands have celebrated Up Helly Aa since the 1800s and have even dubbed it the ‘northern…

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The free UK festival this month that’s nicknamed the ‘northern Mardi Gras’

FORGET the musical main stage and trudging through fields of mud for entertainment, this is a festival like no other. Featuring lots of fire, this celebration has torchlit processions and the burning of a replica Viking ship. The Shetland Islands have celebrated Up Helly Aa since the 1800s and have even dubbed it the ‘northern…

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